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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. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Several men posing in an International Model M truck used by the Cincinnati & Suburban Bell Telephone Company. The truck is parked outside a brick building... |
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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. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | International D-2 truck used by the Home and Telegraph Company. A man on a telephone pole is dressed in a suit and tie. The D-2 truck had a 113-inch wheel ... |
| Date: | 09 08 1954 |
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| 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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| Description: | Letterhead of the Farmers' New Era Telephone Company of Hebron, Illinois, with a female switchboard operator wearing headphones sitting near a window with ... |
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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... |
| Date: | 09 1921 |
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| Description: | Two woman operators posed seated at the Kellogg 350 drop switchboard of the telephone exchange. Calendar on the wall shows a date of September 1921. |
| Date: | 02 07 1956 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 21 1956 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of an outdoor group portrait of a telephone line crew. The six men are wearing hats and work clothes, and five of the men are wearing... |
| Date: | 11 15 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of telephone company workmen erecting telephone pole with a horse-drawn derrick. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | International Harvester Scout 80 used by a telephone company in Manila, Philippines. A man is climbing a telephone pole in front of a building. There is a ... |
| Date: | 08 14 1961 |
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| Description: | Construction of an addition to the Wisconsin Telephone Co. building at 17 S. Fairchild St. The addition provides for a fourth floor on the older rear porti... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | "This picture is of the first telephone exchange that I established in Laona. The girl standing is my youngest daughter. This exchange is still operated in... |
| Date: | 12 16 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is in the driver's seat of a truck, helping a group of four men to erect a telephone pole, using a tall metal tripod attached to the back of the truc... |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Stanley E. Bennett, a First Wisconsin National Bank cashier, listens to the handset while John T. Frymark, a Wisconsin Telephone Company central office for... |
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