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| Date: | 09 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Two General Beverage Sales Co. employees. One man is sitting behind a desk, and the other man is looking over his shoulder. |
| Date: | 12 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Chief of weather operations, L.A. Joos, is on the telephone, while W.C. Williamson is standing at a slanted desk checking one of several weather maps. They... |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Katherine Quilliam (left), chief operator of unit No. 1 at the Madison office of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, interviews Mrs. Viola Cook for a position... |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Operator Pat Stephenson (left) receives instruction from Mrs. Vivian Meicher, a supervisor at the Wisconsin Telephone Company, who is wearing a headset. Th... |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Charles N. Goulet, Wisconsin Telephone Company manager, discusses operations with assistant manager, Vera Kloppmann. They sit at a broad desk that has a ro... |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | A group of people working at desks. One of these operators responds when someone dials for information. Most of their work is to provide telephone numbers ... |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company's main switchboard. Thirty five operators, all women, handle all toll calls. |
| Date: | 02 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Nurse Loretta Heitkamp talking on the telephone at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. |
| Date: | 03 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of three women in the order department at the American Optical Company, located on 429 State Street. Two women are standing at a cou... |
| Date: | 04 06 1954 |
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| Description: | Harvey's Standard Service Station located at 2602 East Washington Avenue (at North Street), featuring their dealership of Atlas tires. A car is pulled up a... |
| Date: | 05 05 1954 |
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| Description: | 44th Annual Wisconsin Telephone Association convention held at the Hotel Loraine located at 119 West Washington Avenue. Shown are (left to right): T.H. San... |
| Date: | 05 05 1954 |
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| Description: | 44th Annual Wisconsin Telephone Association convention held at the Hotel Loraine located at 119 West Washington Avenue. Watching a telephone demonstration ... |
| Date: | 05 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Veterinarian Dr. R.H. Romaker taking a call from one of his clients. |
| 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: | 06 08 1954 |
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| Description: | A brass plaque shaped like a shield with the following inscription: "For Meritorious Service - E. B. Samp President - Wisconsin State Telephone Association... |
| Date: | 12 06 1954 |
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| Description: | A bed-ridden man working from home. Laying in a hospital bed set up in his living room, he is using a typewriter that that is sitting on a table between a ... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | At the crossing at Monroe and Regent Streets, the flagman activates warning lights before the stopped Illinois-Central train proceeds across the crossing. ... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Illinois Central flagman R.D. DeRoche walking along the railroad tracks at the Monroe and Regent Streets crossing ahead of the engine after he activated wa... |
| Date: | 07 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Mayor Ivan Nestingen (seated) using a mobile phone as Arthur Genet, president of the Greyhound Corp. looks on. They are inside a Greyhound Scenicruiser bus... |
| Date: | 08 03 1957 |
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| Description: | A mother and her children looking up at the top of the Capitol dome as the statue "Wisconsin" gets painted. They are on a street corner by posts for traff... |
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