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Wisconsin Telephone Co. Switchboard

Date: 08 03 1931
Description: Wisconsin Telephone Co. switchboard, front view.
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Wisconsin Telephone Co. Switchboard

Date: 08 03 1931
Description: Wisconsin Telephone Co. switchboard, rear view.
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Norwec Transmitter

Date: 11 13 1952
Description: Close-up view of open Norwec Transmitter. A telephone equipment photograph, taken for an REA calendar, published by Wisconsin Electric Cooperative, alterna...
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Telephone Exchange Switchboard

Date: 08 14 1946
Description: Five men are rebuilding the "Fairchild" exchange switchboard at the Wisconsin Telephone Company building. Four women telephone operators in the background ...
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Telephone Exchange

Date: 1910
Description: A female telephone operator posing sitting at the switchboard.
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Telephone Pole and Water Tower

Date: 11 1980
Description: A telephone pole emerges from a dirt mound and casts a shadow across the land. Trees and a water tower can be seen in the distance. Bible Camp Road.
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Telephone Equipment

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Description: Interior view of telephone equipment stored under wooden steps, including receivers and a switchboard. Probably inside the Van Schaick building.
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We Saw You . . . at the Telephone Convention

Date: 05 05 1954
Description: 44th Annual Wisconsin Telephone Association convention held at the Hotel Loraine located at 119 West Washington Avenue. Watching a telephone demonstration ...
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We Saw You . . . at the Telephone Convention

Date: 05 05 1954
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...
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Telstar Passes Test at U.W.

Date: 07 26 1962
Description: Fred Bjorkstem, a Finnish student at U.W., made a transatlantic telephone call to Finland from Sterling Hall via the Telstar communications satellite. Tels...
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Switchboard Operators at the Telephone Exchange Office

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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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Switchboard Operators

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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...
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New Police Telephone Switchboard

Date: 09 06 1949
Description: A Madison police officer at the new police telephone switchboard at the police station, 14 South Webster Street.
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Telephone Linemen

Date: 1935
Description: A man with a hammer is working at the top of a telephone pole as a second man is watching from the ground. There is a third man near a man on another pole ...
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New Police Telephone Switchboard

Date: 09 06 1949
Description: Mrs. Rose E. Amoth works at the new police telephone switchboard at the police station, 14 South Webster Street.
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Theresa Telephone Office

Date: 02 27 1978
Description: "Theresa telephone office. Thirty-year employee, Donald Lawrence, solders on the main frame of the central office switching equipment."
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Electric Switchboard

Date: 08 09 1931
Description: Electric switchboard at Dependent Children's Home.
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Switchboard Operator

Date: 1915
Description: Josie Jepson (or Jepsen) at the telephone switchboard on Washington Island.
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Milwaukee Exchange

Date: 1883
Description: Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange.
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Western Union New Equipment Operaters

Date: 12 07 1948
Description: Geraldine Sommer, foreground, and Frances Zeier, two operators in the Madison office who have been trained to operate transmitting machines for the new spe...

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