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Milwaukee Exchange

Date: 1883
Description: Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange.
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Telephone Switchboard and Operators

Date: 1920
Description: Women work on nine-place telephone switchboard that served 1,145 single-line flat-rate telephones originating 10 calls per day, on average.
Photograph

Telephone Switchboard

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Description: Mrs. Thompto and employee Ethel Clemens working at the telephone switchboard.
Postcard

Telephone Company and Monroe Public Library

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior of the Public Library and Telephone Company buildings in Monroe. Caption reads: "Library and Telephone Building, Monroe, Wis."
Photograph

Telephone Building on Broadway Street

Date: 1883
Description: Horse pulling a wagon in front of the telephone building. There are many telephone poles and wires along the street.
Photograph

Monticello New York Express Office Workers

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Description: Express office workers are shown posing with piled freight at the station. A sign reading "Long Distance Telephone" is on the right.
Photograph

Elks Club and Telephone Company

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Description: Exterior of the Elks Club and the Wood County Telephone Company. Automobiles are parked in front of the two buildings.
Print

Wolf River Lines Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Wolf River Lines, a telephone company in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, with telephone poles and wires spanning a river with silhouettes of buildings ...
Print

Farmers' New Era Telephone Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Farmers' New Era Telephone Company of Hebron, Illinois, with a female switchboard operator wearing headphones sitting near a window with ...
Print

Hager City Telephone Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Hager City Telephone Company of Hager City, Wisconsin, with a line of telephone poles and wires connecting a man in a business suit sitti...
Photograph

Dane County Telephone Company Wagon

Date: 1908
Description: Dane County Telephone Co. horse-drawn service and installation wagon. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the background. “Dad” Schroeder and Oscar Quale are...
Photograph

Wisconsin Telephone Co. Installation Wagon

Date: 1915
Description: Wisconsin Telephone Company horse-drawn service and installation wagon in front of the Telephone Building. Two men sit in the wagon. A man stands in the do...
Postcard

Telephone Company Workmen

Date: 1908
Description: Photographic postcard of telephone company workmen erecting telephone pole with a horse-drawn derrick.
Book or Pamphlet

WI Telephone Company

Date: 1931
Description: Exterior view of the Wisconsin Telephone Co. building, 946 E. Main Street. In the background is a sign (reading backwards) for "Burgess Battery."

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