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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Office supply show sponsored by Bill Goff, Inc., featuring Ediphones produced by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. |
| Date: | 09 26 1984 |
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| Description: | A woman uses an early commercial computer network that allows travel agents to book their own flights without the use of a telephone. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Josie Jepson (or Jepsen) at the telephone switchboard on Washington Island. |
| Date: | 01 19 1944 |
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| Description: | A telephone operator wearing a headset sits in front of a switchboard at the Oscar Mayer Co. |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A female telephone operator posing sitting at the switchboard. |
| 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: | 11 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of open Norwec Transmitter. A telephone equipment photograph, taken for an REA calendar, published by Wisconsin Electric Cooperative, alterna... |
| 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: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Geraldine Sommer, foreground, and Frances Zeier, two operators in the Madison office who have been trained to operate transmitting machines for the new spe... |
| 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: | Interior view of telephone equipment stored under wooden steps, including receivers and a switchboard. Probably inside the Van Schaick building. |
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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: | 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: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A Telstar test satellite mated to the third stage of Delta launch vehicle. |
| 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... |
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