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Filter: Year of 1950-1959
| Date: | 01 23 1958 |
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| Description: | Female telephone switchboard operator at work. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A teenager sitting on a bed talking on the telephone. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two teenage girls are both interested in talking on the telephone. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A kitchen counter is a good perch for a teenage girl's telephone conversation. |
| Date: | 11 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Women campaign workers call voters to support the Labor Political League and vote for candidates sympathetic to Labor issues. |
| 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: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman writes a note at a small writing desk in her kitchen. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | The Kern family, Edna, Nancy, Ernest, and Maribeth, at the supper table. |
| Date: | 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Elected to the Senate in a special election in September 1957, to fill the unexpired term of Senator Joe McCarthy, William Proxmire was forced to begin a c... |
| Date: | 04 24 1951 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Farm Bureau Insurance Company (Rural Mutual Insurance Company) office, 18 S. Thornton Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 24 1951 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Farm Bureau Insurance Company (Rural Mutual Insurance Company) office, 18 S. Thornton Avenue. |
| 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: | 01 29 1953 |
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| Description: | Four men and one woman seated around a table make telephone calls. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, at her desk in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Gertrude Martin, operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket, at her desk with a phone in her hand. Behind her a chalkboard displays a reminder to "suggest ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Betty Bakalaya, operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket, takes an order over the phone. Her coworkers are in the background. |
| Date: | 09 10 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, with supporters in his hometown of Appleton, hearing the news of his landslide victory over his Republican Party c... |
| Date: | 11 1952 |
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| Description: | Phone bank of Madison supporters for the Republican Presidential ticket: Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. |
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