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Post Office Telephone Operator
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Mrs. Mary Snell who has been the post office telephone operator for almost 19 years. She answers complaints, refers calls, and gives information for hundreds of calls a day.
December 31, 1958
Stein, Edwin
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WHi 141705
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Edwin Stein, Wisconsin State Journal Photographer
December 10, 1958
Edwin Stein, Wisconsin State Journal photographer, takes a photograph of himself in a mirror.
Edwin Stein
March 14, 1958
Portrait of Ed Stein, photographer for the Wisconsin State Journal.
Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees
January 5, 1954
Elevated view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company's main switchboard. Thirty five operators, all women, handle all toll calls.
Portrait of Dewey Dunn
July 30, 1958
Portrait of Dewey Dunn, managing editor of The Capital Times. He is wearing eyeglasses, and on his necktie is a tie bar decorated with a telephone.
Edwin Stein, Wisconsin State Journal Photographer
October 24, 1958
Edwin Stein, photographer for the Wisconsin State Journal, poses on the Wisconsin State Capitol steps in Madison.
Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees
January 5, 1954
Katherine Quilliam (left), chief operator of unit No. 1 at the Madison office of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, interviews Mrs. Viola Cook for a position as operator.
