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| Date: | 08 15 1929 |
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| Description: | A crew of telephone line repairmen working on a rural line with their International truck parked below them. An IH truck, with storage compartments sitting... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Women work on nine-place telephone switchboard that served 1,145 single-line flat-rate telephones originating 10 calls per day, on average. |
| Date: | 08 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Telephone line repairmen preparing to work on a residential line. One is climbing a ladder and the other is setting up a soldering unit. Their Internationa... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Telephone linemen working on scaffolds at different levels on a telephone pole as they install line in a rural area. Their International Harvester truck is... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | International Model S telephone repair truck owned by the Ohio Bell Telephone Company. |
| Date: | 04 14 1923 |
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| Description: | An employee operates an International Model G or 61 truck with Mead-Morrison under-slung winch and derrier equipment for the Lowell Electric Lighting Compa... |
| 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: | 1927 |
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| Description: | This map includes an index and highways marked in red. Attractions on the map include: Four Mile House, Cold Springs, Grand Crossing Station, Coleman Sloug... |
| 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: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men are using a large auger to dig a hole for installing telephone poles. A truck is parked nearby, used for installing the poles. The sign on the side... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | View towards a truck with equipment for installing telephone poles. There is a large auger suspended from the back of the truck. Men are standing along the... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | View towards a truck used for installing telephone poles parked on a road. A large auger is attached to the front of the truck. The sign on the side of the... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | View towards front of truck parked along a road, with an auger hanging off the front. A man is standing, (obscured) at the back of the truck. |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | View across road towards a truck parked on the side of the road. A large auger is hanging in front of the truck. Fields are in the background. |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Men installing a telephone pole in a field. A truck is parked along a road behind them, and a large auger is attached to an apparatus at the front of the t... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Men installing a telephone pole in a field. A truck is parked along a road behind them, and a large auger is attached to an apparatus at the front of the t... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men are using a large auger to dig a hole for installing telephone poles. A truck is parked nearby, used for installing the poles. The sign on the side... |
| Date: | 01 30 1928 |
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| Description: | View across road towards a delivery truck parked along the side of the road. The sign painted on the driver's side door reads: "Toll Service Everywhere, No... |
| Date: | 03 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Telephone Co. linemen making installation on pole. A truck is parked nearby. |
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