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The Bell Magneto telephone in 1877

The Bell Magneto telephone in 1877

Title taken from attached caption: "The Bell Magneto telephone in 1877." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc re... More

Jap[anese] telephone girls - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Jap[anese] telephone girls - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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Short distance telephone in Alabam'

Short distance telephone in Alabam'

Photograph shows four African Americans, two men and two boys outside near a barn. The boys sit on top a donkey facing each other while one man speaks into the donkey's ear and the other hold's the donkey's tai... More

C & P TELEPHONE CO. SWITCHBOARDS

C & P TELEPHONE CO. SWITCHBOARDS

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C & P TELEPHONE CO. MAN ON PHONE

C & P TELEPHONE CO. MAN ON PHONE

A black and white photo of a man in a suit talking on a telephone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[New York City Police Dept. activities: Inspector McCafferty, on telephone]

[New York City Police Dept. activities: Inspector McCafferty, on telep...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Photo by Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Police; Crime;... More

[Man on horseback leading pack horse down Government trail, and telephone lines down Davis Creek Canyon, Wallowa National Forest, Oregon]

[Man on horseback leading pack horse down Government trail, and teleph...

National Photo Company Collection. No. 3349. Public domain photograph - historical image of Oregon, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Detroit news timely topics. Bell's first telephone

The Detroit news timely topics. Bell's first telephone

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Telephone & Telegraph Bldg., B'way & Fulton St.

Telephone & Telegraph Bldg., B'way & Fulton St.

J211051 U.S. Copyright Office. No. C 11154. Copyright by Irving Underhill, N.Y.

The Signal Corps trains men for telegraph, telephone, radio There is in your locality a U.S. Army recruiting office / / Harry S. Mueller, Major Infantry.

The Signal Corps trains men for telegraph, telephone, radio There is i...

U.S. Army Signal Corps recruiting poster showing a map of the world with lines of communication and views of classrooms, offices, workshops, and field instruction.

Repairing telephone lines during gas attack at the front, France

Repairing telephone lines during gas attack at the front, France

J240884 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 19205. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Here is the "inside workings" of the automatic telephone, located at the Smithsonian Institution, Wash., being operated by Carl Mitman. The electro magnets do all the work. The current necessary to operate these magnets is supplied by 32 dry batteries located in the box at the left. The motor generator is along side. This machine is capable of operating 50 telephones

Here is the "inside workings" of the automatic telephone, located at t...

A man standing in front of a machine, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve. Date (year) based on date of negatives in same range. Gi... More

Telephone. Disk type dial phone III

Telephone. Disk type dial phone III

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Demonstrates Bell Laboratory wonders. Sergius P. Grace, Vice-President of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, shows the old and the new in telephones. That in his right hand is a model of Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone through which sounds were first electronically transmitted in 1875. The larger apparatus near his right hand is the artificial lung and larynx, which enables people with paralyzed vocal cords to talk again. 12/30

Demonstrates Bell Laboratory wonders. Sergius P. Grace, Vice-President...

A black and white photo of a man holding a microphone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Telephone wires. Rosslyn, Virginia

Telephone wires. Rosslyn, Virginia

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Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Church St. facade from left, sharp

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

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Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. President's office, to fireplace

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

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M.J. Kane, assistant director, Training within Industry. Still training engineer, American Telephone and Telegraph, New York

M.J. Kane, assistant director, Training within Industry. Still trainin...

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Telephone wires stretched up a mountainside on road. Camp Bird Mine, Ouray County, Colorado

Telephone wires stretched up a mountainside on road. Camp Bird Mine, O...

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Civilian defense. Prompt and efficient telephone handling is an important part of civilian defense work. This operator at air raid warden headquarters receives calls telling her of trouble in various areas, notes the messages and passes them on for immediate action. The demonstration was at the civilian defense show at Madison Square Garden, New York, October 1941

Civilian defense. Prompt and efficient telephone handling is an import...

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Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Lounge, to window

Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Lounge, to window

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Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Office

Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Office

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Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Solarium II

Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Solarium II

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Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Montez, glamorous Latin-American movie star, and Gloria Jean, typical of young America in Hollywood, helped collect over one hundred typewriters for the Army, Navy, and Marines. Only machines manufactured since January 1, 1935 were commandeered; no portables were wanted. A telephonic dictation room is being set up whereby busy executives can pick up the telephone, dictate their mail to a centrally located room which insures prompt typing of their letters, and at the same time more correspondence can be handled with lesser number of typewriters

Send your typewriters to war. At Universal City, California, Maria Mon...

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Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Cellar piping

Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Cellar piping

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Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Cafeteria bay windows

Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Cafeteria bay wind...

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Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Cafeteria, general view

Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Cafeteria, general...

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Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Reception office, general view

Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Reception office, ...

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Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Lounge, long shot, cross view

Bell Telephone Laboratory, Murray Hill, New Jersey. Lounge, long shot,...

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Beaumont, Texas. Treated telephone poles stored in the yard at the International Creosoting Company

Beaumont, Texas. Treated telephone poles stored in the yard at the Int...

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Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of employment was opened to Negroes recently when six colored girls were given skilled jobs in the Teletype room of the Office of War Information. The young women, trained by OWI at the American Telephone and Telegraph School in Washington, D.C., operate machines which receive and send official war information to all parts of the country. Miss Emma Brown is shown operating an ASR teletype machine in the News Bureau, OWI

Manning Office of War Information's "nerve center." A new field of emp...

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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. C&P building at 1306 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria, Virginia II

Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. C&P building at 1306 Mt. Ver...

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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. Stairway in C&P telephone building at 28th and N St., S.E.

Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. Stairway in C&P telephone bu...

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[Street scene with people riding bicycles, a bus, a jeep, and utility poles with electric or telephone lines, in a suburb of Beijing, China]

[Street scene with people riding bicycles, a bus, a jeep, and utility ...

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Richie Takach and John Weatherwacks beginning installation on planetary strander; this is a custom job for a telephone company; when completed this machine twists wire and fiber optic strands for use in telecommunications.

Richie Takach and John Weatherwacks beginning installation on planetar...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 17, documenting scenes at Watson Machine International, 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey.

Pamphlet, 1904, Alexander Graham Bell family papers

Pamphlet, 1904, Alexander Graham Bell family papers

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Gardiner Greene Hubbard, July 28, 1880

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Gardiner Greene Hubbard, July 28,...

U.S. Naval Air Station, Telephone Workshop & Storehouse, Mustin Avenue, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL

U.S. Naval Air Station, Telephone Workshop & Storehouse, Mustin Avenue...

Significance: Constructed in 1943 as the Telephone Workshop & Storehouse, Building No. 738 played a supportive communications infrastructural role at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola during World War II, and l... More

Letter from Elsie Bell Grosvenor to Lamar Trotti, January 6, 1939

Letter from Elsie Bell Grosvenor to Lamar Trotti, January 6, 1939

The New York curb market telephone clerk calling one of the members on the floor.

The New York curb market telephone clerk calling one of the members on...

Photograph shows a young man on the telephone waving a note. J0923 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1929 by Jack Sussman. Photo by Jack Sussman Features, New York City.

Fort Sam Houston, Telephone Exchange, Stanley Road behind Cavalry Post Barracks, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Telephone Exchange, Stanley Road behind Cavalry Post...

Significance: Built in 1913 as a one-story structure this building originally served as a Post Telephone Exchange. A second story was added in 1917 and at that time the building was converted to office use. Dur... More

Fort Sam Houston, Telephone Exchange, Stanley Road behind Cavalry Post Barracks, San Antonio, Bexar County, TX

Fort Sam Houston, Telephone Exchange, Stanley Road behind Cavalry Post...

Significance: Built in 1913 as a one-story structure this building originally served as a Post Telephone Exchange. A second story was added in 1917 and at that time the building was converted to office use. Dur... More

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Gardiner Greene Hubbard, January 28, 1877

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Gardiner Greene Hubbard, January ...

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Gardiner Greene Hubbard, March 18, 1876

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Gardiner Greene Hubbard, March 18...

Letter from Gardiner Greene Hubbard to Alexander Graham Bell, September 23, 1877

Letter from Gardiner Greene Hubbard to Alexander Graham Bell, Septembe...

First Bell Telephone motion picture

First Bell Telephone motion picture

Attached caption: "10. First Bell Telephone, June 1875." Emile Berliner 1851 – 1929 was a German-born American inventor and businessman. He is best known for his development of the flat disc record and the Gra... More

N.Y. Telephone - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

N.Y. Telephone - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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C & P TELEPHONE CO. GARAGE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

C & P TELEPHONE CO. GARAGE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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C & P TELEPHONE CO. GARAGE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

C & P TELEPHONE CO. GARAGE - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

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"At the telephone" - A woman sitting at a table with a phone in her hand

"At the telephone" - A woman sitting at a table with a phone in her ha...

Photograph shows young woman, wearing fancy dress, posed with hand holding onto telephone receiver on desk and transmitter (mouthpiece) to mouth. Copyright 1907 by Charles H. Davis, N. Y.

Field Telephone Man, Germany - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Field Telephone Man, Germany - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domai...

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CHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC TELEPHONE CO. TELEPHONE GIRLS

CHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC TELEPHONE CO. TELEPHONE GIRLS

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War exhibit -- N.Y. [field telephone]

War exhibit -- N.Y. [field telephone]

Photograph shows a soldier using a field telephone at an exhibit by the National Security League which was part of the "Peace and Preparation Conference" held at the Hotel Astor in New York City in June 1915. (... More

Miscellaneous subjects. Telephone pole against sky

Miscellaneous subjects. Telephone pole against sky

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[T.D. Dutton and J.J. Boone, radio broadcasters of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., testing the installation for broadcasting the inaugural ceremonies]

[T.D. Dutton and J.J. Boone, radio broadcasters of the American Teleph...

National Photo Company Collection. Item in album: v. 2, p. 16, no. 42122.

Giv. S Transatlantic [...], Secretary of Commerce Clarence M. Young congratulated Poland by transatlantic telephone on the inauguration of Polish merchant marine service with the United States. In the photograph, right to left, are: Young; T. Nosowiez, director of the Polish department of marine; Clayton Lane, commercial attache of the American embassy in Warsaw [...] Commercial Counselor of the Polish embassy in Washington

Giv. S Transatlantic [...], Secretary of Commerce Clarence M. Young co...

A black and white photo of a group of men sitting at a table. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Feminists telephone the Hague to determine their status in proposed World Code. The National Woman's Party in Washington was all agog today as Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley telephoned Miss Doris Stevens, chairman of the InterAmerican Commission of Women at the Haugue, to ascertain whether the World Code now being drawn up by the Codification Conference of International Law will be based on sex discrimination. In the photograph, left to right: Miss Anita Pollitzer of South Carolina; Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley; Miss Alice Paul; and Miss Elsie Hill of Connecticut

Feminists telephone the Hague to determine their status in proposed Wo...

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First Telephone Exchange Building, 741 Chapel Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

First Telephone Exchange Building, 741 Chapel Street, New Haven, New H...

Survey number: HABS CT-373 Public domain photograph of shopping center, department store building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

American Telephone & Telegraph Building, Bayview Avenue (Route 617), Ocean Gate, Ocean County, NJ

American Telephone & Telegraph Building, Bayview Avenue (Route 617), O...

Survey number: HABS NJ-1134 Public domain photograph related to development of telegraph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tel-Aviv Exchange Automatic Telephone.

Tel-Aviv Exchange Automatic Telephone.

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The telephone used in information work. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Washington, D.C.

The telephone used in information work. United States Department of Ag...

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Boxes placed in Smithsonian in 1881 by telephone inventor opened for first time. Washington, D.C., Oct. Three boxes which Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, and two associates placed in the secret archives of the Smithsonian Institution in 1881 and which have remained [un][?]opened since, were formally opened today in the presence of Bell's two daughters and a group of scientists. The boxes contained among other things the original working model of the first machine ever to record on wax and reproduce the Human voice. In the photograph, left to right: Mrs. David Fairchild, daughter of the inventor; Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, another daughter; Alexander Graham Bell, great-grandson of Bell; T.H. Beard, Director or Research of the Dictaphone Co.; Dr. Charles Abbot, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; and H.W. Dorsey, also of the Smithsonian. 10/27/37

Boxes placed in Smithsonian in 1881 by telephone inventor opened for f...

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Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Library II

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

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Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Vice president and general manager's office, to desk

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

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Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Vestibule I

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

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Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Board of directors' room, fireplace

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

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Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New Haven, Connecticut. Vestibule II

Southern New England Telephone Company, administration building, New H...

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A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a sign. Great Depression Era, New Mexico

A black and white photo of a man standing in front of a sign. Great De...

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Page of telephone directory. Dubuque, Iowa

Page of telephone directory. Dubuque, Iowa

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Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wheel, sport event, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of byciclyst, bike, bicycle wh...

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Athens, Ohio. H.D. Palmer, executive director of the civilian defense council, addressing a meeting of the utilities division, including representatives of power, gas, electric, telephone companies

Athens, Ohio. H.D. Palmer, executive director of the civilian defense ...

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Using a telephone which is part of the underground communications system which connects the field with the administration building at the municipal airport in Washington, D.C.

Using a telephone which is part of the underground communications syst...

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Park County, Montana. Telephone line

Park County, Montana. Telephone line

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Washington, D.C. South African Legation on Massachusetts Avenue. Minister Close, in the middle of a telephone call, asking his wife to do an errand for him in town where she is bound

Washington, D.C. South African Legation on Massachusetts Avenue. Minis...

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New York, New York. Recording room of the New York Times newspaper. Overseas shortwave radio telephone operator receiving and recording messages of Times correspondent in Berne, Switzerland

New York, New York. Recording room of the New York Times newspaper. Ov...

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Beaumont, Texas. Treated telephone poles stored in the yard at the International Creosoting Company

Beaumont, Texas. Treated telephone poles stored in the yard at the Int...

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Beaumont, Texas. Treated telephone poles stored in the yard at the International Creosoting Company

Beaumont, Texas. Treated telephone poles stored in the yard at the Int...

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Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") for lend-lease shipment to the USSR at the Kroger grocery and baking company. Women trimming the pork to size before treating it for twenty percent shrinkage. Left to right: Dorothy Roland, ex-housewife; Flora Keeton, ex-housewife; Susan Brown, packer; Edith Bixton, telephone operator

Cincinnati, Ohio. Preparing canned pork (Russian: "svinaia tushonka") ...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. Exterior front of C&P building at 28th and N St., S.E.

Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. Exterior front of C&P buildi...

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Richie Takach and John Weatherwacks beginning installation on planetary strander; this is a custom job for a telephone company; when completed this machine twists wire and fiber optic strands for use in telecommunications.

Richie Takach and John Weatherwacks beginning installation on planetar...

Forms part of a group of images recorded on August 17, documenting scenes at Watson Machine International, 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, New Jersey.

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Telephone Exchange Building, Morton Street near Clark Street, Pearl City, Honolulu County, HI

U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor, Telephone Exchange Building, Morton Str...

Significance: The U.S. Naval Base, Pearl Harbor was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1964; due to the crucial role it played in the Nation's defense during the twentieth century and the calamitous ... More

Washington, D.C. The telephone in a boardinghouse is always busy

Washington, D.C. The telephone in a boardinghouse is always busy

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Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse, 1111 North Capitol Street, NE, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse, 1111 North Capitol S...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse is significant for its role in the development and maintenance of Washington, DC's telephone network by the Chesapeake & Potomac (C&P) Telephon... More

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse, 1111 North Capitol Street, NE, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse, 1111 North Capitol S...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse is significant for its role in the development and maintenance of Washington, DC's telephone network by the Chesapeake & Potomac (C&P) Telephon... More

Central Union Telephone Company Building, 311 North Wayne Street, Piqua, Miami County, OH

Central Union Telephone Company Building, 311 North Wayne Street, Piqu...

Significance: The structure was begun on April 16, 1918 and finished in late June of 1919. The new structure combined and consolidated the offices and telephone switching boards of the Central Union Telephone C... More

Pamphlet, 1904. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair, 1904

Pamphlet, 1904. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis World's Fair,...

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local, state, an... More

Letter from Mark Twain to Gardiner Greene Hubbard, December 27, 1890

Letter from Mark Twain to Gardiner Greene Hubbard, December 27, 1890

Letter from Gardiner Greene Hubbard to Alexander Graham Bell, December 11, 1877

Letter from Gardiner Greene Hubbard to Alexander Graham Bell, December...

Arnold Genthe - The First Chinese telephone operator in Chinatown, San Francisco

Arnold Genthe - The First Chinese telephone operator in Chinatown, San...

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Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, 1519 Franklin Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, 1519 Franklin Street, ...

Significance: This structure is historically important for its association with early 20th century growth of telephone service in the East Bay and the fact that it is still used by the firm that built it. At t... More

Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, 1519 Franklin Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, 1519 Franklin Street, ...

Significance: This structure is historically important for its association with early 20th century growth of telephone service in the East Bay and the fact that it is still used by the firm that built it. At t... More

Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, 1519 Franklin Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, 1519 Franklin Street, ...

Significance: This structure is historically important for its association with early 20th century growth of telephone service in the East Bay and the fact that it is still used by the firm that built it. At t... More

Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, 1519 Franklin Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA

Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company Building, 1519 Franklin Street, ...

Significance: This structure is historically important for its association with early 20th century growth of telephone service in the East Bay and the fact that it is still used by the firm that built it. At t... More

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, August 4, 1876

Letter from Alexander Graham Bell to Mabel Hubbard Bell, August 4, 187...

1957 Telephone Exchange Building, Southeast corner of Wall Street & State Route 53, Braselton, Jackson County, GA

1957 Telephone Exchange Building, Southeast corner of Wall Street & St...

Significance: The 1957 Telephone Exchange Building is a contributing resource in the existing Braselton National Register of Historic Places District and represents the early twentieth century modest residentia... More

Native market of the Kavirondo tribe - woman in foreground wears tassel which is the tribal insignia of a married woman; Anklets are of telephone wire, Victoria Nyanza, Tanganyika, Africa.

Native market of the Kavirondo tribe - woman in foreground wears tasse...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. LOT subdivision subject: Tanganyika. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection (Library of Congress).

Admiral Goodrich receiving wireless telephone

Admiral Goodrich receiving wireless telephone

A black and white photo of a man in uniform. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Young girl playing with a wall telephone]

[Young girl playing with a wall telephone]

Photograph shows little girl sitting in chair with dog and holding telephone receiver to dog's ear.

[Thomas W. Lawson, full-length portrait, seated at desk, facing right, on telephone, alongside ticker tape machine]

[Thomas W. Lawson, full-length portrait, seated at desk, facing right,...

H42845 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 9205. Public domain photograph related to development of telegraph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[William Howard Taft, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing left, talking on a telephone as he receives news about his nomination as the 1908 Republican presidential candidate from President Theodore Roosevelt] / Harris & Ewing, Washington, DC.

[William Howard Taft, three-quarter-length portrait, seated, facing le...

Publication date based on copyright statement: "Copyright 1909 by Harris & Ewing, Washington, DC." Photograph from a series known as "The Evolution of a Smile." Forms part of: George W. Harris collection. Acce... More

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