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Photograph

Milwaukee Exchange

Date:	1883
Description:	Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange.

Photograph

Telephone Switchboard and Operators

Date:	1920
Description:	Women work on nine-place telephone switchboard that served 1,145 single-line flat-rate telephones originating 10 calls per day, on average.

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Farmers' New Era Telephone Co. Letterhead

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Description:	Letterhead of the Farmers' New Era Telephone Company of Hebron, Illinois, with a female switchboard operator wearing headphones sitting near a window with ...

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