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| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | View of a group of men and a woman. Some of the men are dressed in overalls and are using telephones in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field.... |
| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Men, some of whom are dressed in overalls, make phone calls in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field in the recreation hall and switchboard ar... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Henry Anderson runs a switchboard on his 90th birthday, with his smoking paraphernalia and a photograph of him at the switchboard on a table nearby. |
| Date: | 04 14 1923 |
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| Description: | An employee operates an International Model G or 61 truck with Mead-Morrison under-slung winch and derrier equipment for the Lowell Electric Lighting Compa... |
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| Description: | Studio head and shoulders portrait of Walter S. Gifford of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | The new Western Union equipment in the Madison office which is connected with an 'electric brain' in Minneapolis, permitting faster transmission of message... |
| Date: | 09 06 1949 |
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| Description: | A Madison police officer at the new police telephone switchboard at the police station, 14 South Webster Street. |
| Date: | 02 27 1978 |
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| Description: | "Theresa telephone office. Thirty-year employee, Donald Lawrence, solders on the main frame of the central office switching equipment." |
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| Description: | The disconnection sways, rings out the moving targets racing with the mind in mathematic sound that vanish in the distance and then appear again a... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | German film poster for the American film. Illustrated image of a man's face. Behind him are telephone poles and lines against a blue background. |
| Date: | 07 26 1962 |
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| Description: | Fred Bjorkstem, a Finnish student at U.W., made a transatlantic telephone call to Finland from Sterling Hall via the Telstar communications satellite. Tels... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A technician prepares the ends of cable wires in the Telstar satellite. |
| Date: | 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Members of the Senate Commerce Communications Subcommittee stand with a model of the Telstar satellite. A man holds a piece of the model and is pointing sk... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A group of men look at a model of the Telstar with Newton Minow. |
| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster featuring a woman in a navy blue uniform working at a switchboard that has the symbol of the Y.W.C.A abpve it. Outside the window behind... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men are using a large auger to dig a hole for installing telephone poles. A truck is parked nearby, used for installing the poles. The sign on the side... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | View towards a truck with equipment for installing telephone poles. There is a large auger suspended from the back of the truck. Men are standing along the... |
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