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Wisconsin Telephone Company Building

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, 17 South Fairchild Street.
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Telephone Strike

Date: 03 07 1947
Description: Telephone workers picket at the telephone exchange on Capitol Square, near the corner of Main and Carroll Streets. Seven hundred Madison telephone employee...
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Wisconsin Telephone Company

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company Building, 17 South Fairchild Street.
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National Telephone Strike

Date: 1947
Description: National telephone strike, showing one operator in the left half of east switchboard room of Wisconsin Telephone Company, 16 South Carroll Street.
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National Telephone Strike

Date: 04 07 1947
Description: During the national telephone strike, one operator is present in the east switchboard room at Wisconsin Telephone Company, 16 South Carroll Street.
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National Telephone Strike

Date: 04 07 1947
Description: During the national telephone strike, strikers picket in front of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, 16 South Carroll Street.
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Construction

Date: 05 15 1947
Description: Elevated view of men pouring cement into the forms of the Wisconsin Telephone Company's new seven story building on the corner of West Main Street and Sout...
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Building

Date: 11 17 1948
Description: The new Wisconsin Telephone Company west side exchange building in the 2100 block of Franklin Avenue.
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First 24 Hour Outdoor Pay Phone Booth

Date: 11 18 1949
Description: Marjorie White of 25 East Dayton Street wearing a fur coat and head scarf while using what is alleged to be the first 24-hour, outdoor-accessible pay phone...
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Wisconsin Telephone Company

Date: 05 16 1952
Description: Three men, one of whom is handing a check to one of the other two men, for the Wisconsin Telephone Company.
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United Givers Campaign Fair Share Plan

Date: 09 08 1954
Description: Miss Helen J. Batten of 121 South Hamilton Street, Wisconsin Telephone company switchboard operator, tells why she likes the "fair share" plan of the Unite...
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University of Wisconsin Student Wives Who Work

Date: 02 07 1956
Description: Mary Redlich is a canvass supervisor for the Wisconsin Telephone Company. Her husband, Glenn Redlich, is a senior in the School of Commerce at the Universi...
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Wisconsin Telephone Operators with Christmas Baskets

Date: 12 21 1956
Description: Wisconsin Telephone Company operators are shown with Christmas baskets of food to be delivered to the needy. Left to right: Barbara Gardner, Ione Wall, Van...
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One Millionth Telephone in Wisconsin Installed

Date: 11 15 1957
Description: The original caption states: "the Wisconsin Telephone Co.'s one-millionth telephone now in service was presented to Gov. Vernon W. Thomson by Charles E. Wa...

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