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| Date: | 09 26 1984 |
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| Description: | A woman uses an early commercial computer network that allows travel agents to book their own flights without the use of a telephone. |
| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | View of a group of men and a woman. Some of the men are dressed in overalls and are using telephones in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field.... |
| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Men, some of whom are dressed in overalls, make phone calls in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field in the recreation hall and switchboard ar... |
| Date: | 08 03 1931 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. switchboard, front view. |
| Date: | 08 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Electric switchboard at Dependent Children's Home. |
| Date: | 08 14 1946 |
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| Description: | Five men are rebuilding the "Fairchild" exchange switchboard at the Wisconsin Telephone Company building. Four women telephone operators in the background ... |
| Date: | 09 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Rose E. Amoth works at the new police telephone switchboard at the police station, 14 South Webster Street. |
| Date: | 09 06 1949 |
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| Description: | A Madison police officer at the new police telephone switchboard at the police station, 14 South Webster Street. |
| Date: | 08 12 1865 |
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| Description: | A map of the world showing telegraphic systems for encircling the globe. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Marie McCaddin, New York branch telephone operator." Overhead view of woman sitting at a switchboard. |
| Date: | 02 27 1978 |
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| Description: | "Theresa telephone office. Thirty-year employee, Donald Lawrence, solders on the main frame of the central office switching equipment." |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Minicom III TTY machine made by Ultratec, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, c. 1986-1989. (Museum object #2004.58.2a-h) |
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| Description: | The disconnection sways, rings out the moving targets racing with the mind in mathematic sound that vanish in the distance and then appear again a... |
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| Description: | Far out The last report on peace to reach us here was neither a promise nor easy Faith but the hardest of all, the waiting for never an... |
| Date: | 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Telephone pole among marsh grasses and bare birch trees near the Spring Green Bridge. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | 1893 calendar with the months of October and November. Features an illustration of a woman sitting at a desk using a telegraph key, near the words: "The Ca... |
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| Description: | Indoor group portrait of an office space. with two women posing sitting at a telephone switchboard, and another woman posing standing. The woman standing i... |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of an office space with two women posing sitting at a telephone switchboard. Above the switchboard is a clock. There is a window on the lef... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A colorized view from shoreline of the steel beam bridge, with five sections and five bridge pylons. The bridge was downstream from the rapids on Main stre... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | German film poster for the American film. Illustrated image of a man's face. Behind him are telephone poles and lines against a blue background. |
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