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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Josie Jepson (or Jepsen) at the telephone switchboard on Washington Island. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Women work on nine-place telephone switchboard that served 1,145 single-line flat-rate telephones originating 10 calls per day, on average. |
| Date: | 08 14 1946 |
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| Description: | Five men are rebuilding the "Fairchild" exchange switchboard at the Wisconsin Telephone Company building. Four women telephone operators in the background ... |
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| Description: | Mrs. Thompto and employee Ethel Clemens working at the telephone switchboard. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A caravan of trucks en route from International Harvester's Akron Works factory in Ohio to Chicago is traveling down a rural road lined with telephone pole... |
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| Description: | Telephone poles line a rural road that passes by a house. |
| Date: | 09 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Rose E. Amoth works at the new police telephone switchboard at the police station, 14 South Webster Street. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Marie McCaddin, New York branch telephone operator." Overhead view of woman sitting at a switchboard. |
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| Description: | Far out The last report on peace to reach us here was neither a promise nor easy Faith but the hardest of all, the waiting for never an... |
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| Description: | Indoor group portrait of an office space. with two women posing sitting at a telephone switchboard, and another woman posing standing. The woman standing i... |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of an office space with two women posing sitting at a telephone switchboard. Above the switchboard is a clock. There is a window on the lef... |
| Date: | 03 09 1965 |
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| Description: | Dispatcher Sgt. L.E. Odegaard sitting at a switchboard surrounded by newly installed dispatching equipment. Odegaard is on the second floor of No. 3 statio... |
| Date: | 10 05 2016 |
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| Description: | A large cottonwood, named Wisconsin's largest tree in the 1970's, standing on Underwood Avenue in front of a two-story granite faced house. There is a cell... |
| Date: | 03 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Telephone Co. linemen making installation on pole. A truck is parked nearby. |
| Date: | 03 16 1954 |
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| Description: | Single-family, one-story home for sale by Mohawk Realty in a newly built housing suburb. A telephone pole is standing behind the house on the left. There a... |
| Date: | 05 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Madison housing development at the corner of McKenna Boulevard and Gilbert Road in the Orchard Ridge neighborhood. Shows homes, sprawling backyards and tel... |
| Date: | 11 26 1918 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a large office, with a female switchboard operator sitting on the right. |
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