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Airline Computer Network

Date: 09 26 1984
Description: A woman uses an early commercial computer network that allows travel agents to book their own flights without the use of a telephone.
Photograph

International G/61 Electric Company Truck

Date: 04 14 1923
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...
Photograph

Truck Caravan on Road

Date: 1917
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...
Photograph

Country Road

Date: 
Description: Telephone poles line a rural road that passes by a house.
Photograph

Weyauwega Train Depot (Part of the Soo Line)

Date: 1880
Description: A view of the Weyauwega Train Depot building, platform, and railroad tracks. Signs on the building read, "Agency Western Express Co." and "Western Express ...
Map or Atlas

Lakes Tributary to G.W. Buck & Son Resorts : Branches: Divide Resort, Spider Lake Resort, Manitowish Hotel

Date: 12 1900
Description: This manuscript map from 1900 shows resorts, lakes, rivers and streams, roads, railroads, and telephone lines in northwest Vilas County, in the towns of Bo...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 735-742

Date: 
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...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 743-749

Date: 
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...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — October and November

Date: 1893
Description: 1893 calendar with the months of October and November. Features an illustration of a woman sitting at a desk using a telegraph key, near the words: "The Ca...
Postcard

Chippewa Falls, Wis. Bridge, Crossing the Chippewa River

Date: 1910
Description: A colorized view from shoreline of the steel beam bridge, with five sections and five bridge pylons. The bridge was downstream from the rapids on Main stre...
Photograph

Montello Cottonwood

Date: 10 05 2016
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...
Photograph

Truck and Telephone Pole Installation

Date: 08 09 1927
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...
Photograph

Truck and Telephone Pole Installation

Date: 08 09 1927
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...
Photograph

Truck and Telephone Pole Installation

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: View towards a truck used for installing telephone poles parked on a road. A large auger is attached to the front of the truck. The sign on the side of the...
Photograph

Intalling Telephone Poles

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: View towards front of truck parked along a road, with an auger hanging off the front. A man is standing, (obscured) at the back of the truck.
Photograph

Truck and Telephone Pole Installation

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: View across road towards a truck parked on the side of the road. A large auger is hanging in front of the truck. Fields are in the background.
Photograph

Truck and Telephone Pole Installation

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: Men installing a telephone pole in a field. A truck is parked along a road behind them, and a large auger is attached to an apparatus at the front of the t...
Photograph

Truck and Telephone Pole Installation

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: Men installing a telephone pole in a field. A truck is parked along a road behind them, and a large auger is attached to an apparatus at the front of the t...
Photograph

Truck and Telephone Pole Installation

Date: 08 09 1927
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...
Photograph

Serbian School Building Transformed into Telephone Station

Date: 1914
Description: A Serbian schoolhouse is being transformed into a telephone station during the war.

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