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| Date: | 05 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office. |
| Date: | 05 05 1932 |
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| Description: | The U.S. airmail radio operator at Royal Airport in Madison. During the 1920s Madison had two airports: the Madison Airport (aka the North Street Airport) ... |
| Date: | 12 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Left interior of Kidder Radio Shop, 113 N. Baldwin Street. Shows two men working on radios. |
| Date: | 03 23 1961 |
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| Description: | A ham radio operator uses his home radio equipment to allow Wisconsin residents far from home to link to family members via a radio-phone connection. |
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| Description: | Mrs. Thompto and employee Ethel Clemens working at the telephone switchboard. |
| Date: | 04 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Layman W. Fleming, second from right, retired after 18 years as district manager of the Western Union Telegraph Co., and after 42 years in the telegraph bu... |
| Date: | 10 20 1962 |
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| Description: | The Inaugural Banquet for the newly inaugurated President of the University of Wisconsin, Fred H. Harrington, was held at the Field House. Operating with s... |
| Date: | 10 20 1962 |
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| Description: | The Inaugural Banquet for the newly inaugurated President of the University of Wisconsin, Fred H. Harrington, was held at the Field House. Operating with s... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four telephone linemen. Three of the men are posed on the pole, and another man is standing on the ground. Three automobiles are parked a... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across dirt road towards three linemen posing in front of a truck that is parked along the side of the road. A power pole is attached horizontally in ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four telephone linemen standing together, three of them wearing pole climbing spikes (or spurs). The man leaning on the pole is Carl Pete... |
| Date: | 03 29 1917 |
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| Description: | Telegram to George W. Ellis of Green Bay, from Ernest La Rue Jones, president of the Aeronautics Manufacturers' Association. Text reads: Lawson familiar ae... |
| Date: | 05 05 1954 |
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| Description: | 44th Annual Wisconsin Telephone Association convention held at the Hotel Loraine located at 119 West Washington Avenue. Shown are (left to right): T.H. San... |
| Date: | 05 05 1954 |
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| Description: | 44th Annual Wisconsin Telephone Association convention held at the Hotel Loraine located at 119 West Washington Avenue. Watching a telephone demonstration ... |
| Date: | 05 05 1954 |
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| Description: | 44th Annual Wisconsin Telephone Association convention held at the Hotel Loraine located at 119 W. Washington Avenue. Presenting at one of the panel discus... |
| Date: | 06 08 1954 |
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| Description: | A brass plaque shaped like a shield with the following inscription: "For Meritorious Service - E. B. Samp President - Wisconsin State Telephone Association... |
| Date: | 02 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Kitty Daly, a cab dispatcher for the City Car Co. for the past 17 years, has been answering the phone in front of a microphone and an electrical telegraph.... |
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