Telephone Collection

US Steel Works
The blast furnaces and rolling mills of the Homestead Steel Works, Pittsburgh. From a stereograph. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931), American inventor of the carbon telephone transmitter (1877), phonograph (1878), and incandescent lamp with carbon filament (1879)

Old-Fashioned Black Rotary Telephone
Still life of an old-fashioned black rotary telephone, 1930s. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Modern fax-answering machine, front view

Female telephone receptionist at information desk, answering phone
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1950s: Female telephone receptionist at information desk, answering phone

Woman on telephone, smiling
UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1960s: Woman on telephone, smiling

Drawing of an Early Wall Telephone
(Original Caption) Wall Telephone, old fashioned

Depictions of Men Using Early Telephone
(Original Caption) Telephone: The Future Of The Telephone. A prediction that became reality. Judge listening to the confession of two criminals in their cell. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Bettmann Archive)

Model of Early Bell Telephone
(Original Caption) Early Bell Telephonic Device. Successfully demonstrated in June 1876. The instrument could be used either as a transmitter or as a receiver

Woman Talking on Telephone
(Original Caption) Clara Lipman using the telephone

Woman Talking On The Telephone Early
(Original Caption) 1890-Victorian Life: Woman talking on the telephone

Early Desk Telephone
(Original Caption) A #2 desk stand phone of 1892. Undated photograph

Bell Opening New York-Chicago Telephone Line
A group of businessmen watch inventor Alexander Graham Bell as he opens the New York-Chicago telephone line

Telephone Poles Behind Horse Drawn Wagon
(Original Caption) Telephone poles behind a horse drawn wagon, with six workmen, labeled "The Niagara Falls Power Co." Photograph, 1896

Interior of Telephone Exchange
(Original Caption) 1897- New York, NY: Interior of ("Central") New York Telephone Exchange

Telephone Operator At Switchboard
(Original Caption) New York, NY-Telephone operators of the Hotel New Yorker, largest hostelry in New York City which opens next month, must at all times retain a sweet disposition

Joseph P. Kennedy Relaxing In Florida
(Original Caption) Palm Beach, FL: From the scrapbook of the Kennedy family: Photo shows; Joseph P. Kennedy, when he was Ambassador to the court of St. Jameson

Facsimile Transmission Experiment
(Original Caption) Facsimile transmission of pictures by telephone. Experiments by New York Telephone Company

Model Of Bell's First Electric Telephone
(Original Caption) Model of Alexander Graham Bell's first electric-speaking telephone. Undated photograph

Physicist Edward Guillaume
(Original Caption) Charles Edward Guillaume (1861-1938), French physicist [who] received Nobel Prize for Physics in 1920

Women Working at Switchboards
(Original Caption) New York, NY - Bustle-clad ladies in straight, hard chairs, leaning forward to speak into boxlike transmitters suspended rigidly from the ceiling

Desk Covered with Assorted Office Supplies
(Original Caption) Desk covered with an assortment of common office supplies: telephone, ledger, adding machine, stapler, etc. Photograph circa 1938

Full-Length Public Telephone
(Original Caption) Telephones: Photo shows a full-length public telephone. Ca. 1966

Man Using Old Fashioned Telephone
(Original Caption) - Encased in oak and using the blake transmitter and Bell's hand receiver, this was the first telephone built for the Bell System by Western Electronic

Officials of Western Telegraph Receiving Treaty
(Original Caption

Woman On Phone Has Corset Tightened
(Original Caption) Photo shows a woman in her underwear on the telephone while another similarly clad woman behind her tightens her corset. Undated photograph

Policeman Talking on Phone
(Original Caption) Policeman making a call from a "call box."

Madge Kennedy in Movie Still
From the 1921 film The Girl with the Jazz Heart

W.C. Fields Holding Large Phone in Movie Still
(Original Caption) W.C. Fields holding oversized telpehone while two girls with phones are on either side

Minoru Takano Talking on Phone
(Original Caption) Minoru Takano, 53, mild-mannered tubercular who looks more like a meek country school teacher than the militant boss of one of free Asia's greatest labor forces

Edith Evans Speaking On Telephone
(Original Caption) Dame Edith Evans, 80, got her first starring part this year in "The Whisperers"--after long service and many fine performances in a slew of films

Puppets Kukla And Ollie/Tv Show
From the Kukla, Fran and Ollie television program, 1947-1957

Jeanette G. Brill Speaking on Telephone
(Original Caption) New York newest woman magistrate who will sit in judgement in Brooklyn court. New York. Mrs. Jeannette G

Amos And Andy Talking On The Phone
(Original Caption) Amos & Andy talking to someone on the telephone

Thomas Edison Desk And Sleeping Cot
(Original Caption) Thomas Edison's desk and sleeping cot in his lab in East Orange. Undated photograph

Eva Gabor And Eddie Albert Laying In Bed
(Original Caption) A scene from the long-running television series "Green Acres." The series, which ran from 1965-1971, starred Eva Gabor as "Lisa Douglas

People Using Early Telephone
(Original Caption) This photo shows the applications of Professor Bell's telephone. It is an 1877 woodcut

Telephone Operators on The Job
(Original Caption) This photo shows a central office of the early telephone exchange with boy operators done in a woodcut

Woodcut Depiction of Early Telephone Room
(Original Caption) This is how the telephone exchange looked in 1883. The switchboards are shown with workers

American Journalist Robert Benchley
(Original Caption) Picture shows Robert Benchly (1889-1945), American humorist and drama critic for Life Magazine (1920-1929). Undated photo

Sterling Holloway Speaking on the Telephone
(Original Caption) Sterling Holloway in a scene from the Columbia comedy #411

Jean Harlow Talking on Telephone in Bed
Jean Harlow (1911-1937), American actress known as the sex symbol of the 1930s, is seen here lounging in bed with her telephone

Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird
Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird. Peck won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the lawyer, from the novel by Harper Lee

Man And Woman Using Old Fashioned Phones
(Original Caption) Old fashioned telephone receivers used by a man and a woman. Woodcut, 1878

Franklin D. Roosevelt Meets With Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov
President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov at the White House during his secret visit to discuss the creation of a second front during World War II

Scene from the Television Show Batman
Adam West as Batman speaks into his phone while Burt Ward as Robin looks on in a scene from the television show, Batman

Man Laughing with Telephone in Hand
(Original Caption) Photo gives an example of "stereoscopic humor, " with an office scene and man on telephone in an exuberant mood

Young Woman Speaking into Telephone
(Original Caption) 1907: A young woman speaks into a telephone

Telephone Operators on Small Exchange
(Original Caption) Telephone exchange of small town. Hamburg, NY. Photograph, ca. 1908. BPA2# 4937 Ph: John Van Epps Hamburg, NY

Young Lady Using Telephone
(Original Caption) Young lady using telephone. Photograph, 1909. Copyright, 1909 Rochester Photo Press Rochester, N.Y

American Soldier on Mobile Phone While in the Field
(Original Caption) France: World War I American soldier in the Argonne

German Field Telephone Station
(Original Caption) World War I. A field telephone station on the advance German line on the Aisne, France

Germans Using Field Telephone
(Original Caption) WWI German telephone field station. The Germans pioneered in the use of communications devices during this conflict

Crane Wilbur and Pearl White in Movie Still
(Original Caption) Crane Wilbur and Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline directed by Donald Mackenzie for Eclectic. Photograph, 1914. Wilbur using telephone of the period

Reverend Professor Dominoco Argentieri
(Original Caption) Reverend Professor Dominoco Argentieri, who has just invented a new system for receiving and intercepting wireless messages

Group Of Switchboard Operators 1915
(Original Caption) Switchboard operators ca. 1915

Alexander Bell with Group at Ceremony
(Original Caption) 1/25/1915-New York

Abraham Reuf Using the Telephone
(Original Caption) Abraham Reuf, political-machine boss of San Francisco

Postmasters at Convention Listen on Phones
(Original Caption) 10/22/1916-Washington, DC-: POSTMASTERS LISTEN TO VOICE ACROSS CONTINENT. U.S

Dorothy Day
(Original Caption) 12/31/1916-Dorothy Day (1897-1980), American journalist and reformer, born in Brooklyn, NY

Telephone Operator With Mask
(Original Caption) Flu epidemic, 1918: Telephone operater with protective gauze

Man Using Old-Fashioned Telephone
(Original Caption) Investor doing business by telephone on the New York curb exchange, 1919

Talking on Oversized Telephone
(Original Caption) Woman using huge telephone

Movie Portrayal of Alexander Graham Bell
An actor portraying Alexander Graham Bell speaking into the Centennial telephone

First Radio Station
(Original Caption) Wireless System to Link Hotel chain. Perhaps you've a friend in Buenos Aires-or maybe they are in France, Spain, England, Rome or Switzerland

Bill Haywood with American IWW Members
(Original Caption) 2/24/1922-Russia- Three members of the American I.W.W. now in Russia (L-R): William Shatoff, Bill Haywood, and George Andreytchine

Police Using Phone in Car
(Original Caption) Chicago's Radio Telephone Police. A close up of one of the auto radio stations, by means of which messages may be sent from outlying posts to headquarters is shown

Soldier Listening to Radio Transmission
(Original Caption) Radio enables soldiers To Hear Opera Stars. Here is Sergeant Lawrence W

Police Officers Working at Radio Console
(Original Caption) Chicago's Radio Telephone Police. Chicago might be truly called a leader

Man Talking on Telephone
(Original Caption) Receives Wireless In Broadway Office From Ship At Sea. Mr. T. H

James F. McLaughlin with Radiophone
(Original Caption) The Future Wireless. Chief James F

Employees in Switchboard Room
(Original Caption) The Most Unique Telephone Exchange In The World

People Operating a Radiophone
(Original Caption) How new aerial-less wireless phone operates through human bodies. Left to right, M.G

Youngest Lawyer Pauline M. Floyd
(Original Caption) youngest lawyer to be admitted to U.S. Supreme Court Bar. Miss Pauline M. Floyd of washington, D.C

Blind Girl Listening to Telephone
(Original Caption) Girl who is blind and deaf sees and reads perfectly with her finger tips

Yankee Bob Meusel on Telephone
(Original Caption) Bob Meusel, the Yankee player who with Babe Ruth, was suspended by Judge Landis following the now famous Barnstorming trip last season

A Blind Telephone Operator
(Original Caption) August 4, 1922. The "Lighthouse" For the Blind

H.B. Ely Testing an Electric Target Computer
(Original Caption) New Electric Target Computer Tested at War Department. The War Department has just completed experiments with an electric target computer, invented by Hannibal C

Experimental Set For Wireless Phone/Man
(Original Caption) 12/3/1924-D.V.L. Fellow with experimental set for secret wireless telephone

Senators Reed And Borah
(Original Caption) 1925-Chicago, IL- Senator Borah and Senator Reed start their world court fight to enter the League of Nations

Eleanor Wilson Talking on the Telephone
Eleanor Wilson, daughter of President Woodrow Wilson, talking on the telephone

Telephone Operorator Having Pulse Taken
(Original Caption) 5/4/1925-Berlin, Germany: The telephone system has a lot "behind the scenes" not known to subscribers. The same as those in this country

Frank Hines and John Pershing Talking on Telephones
(Original Caption) Defense Day program links 29 radio stations in largest hook-up yet effected. Photo shows General Frank L. Hines, chief of staff, U.S.A

Scientist Charles J. Bell Working with Equipment
(Original Caption) Washington:Telephone Pioneers Attend Convention. Above is pictured Charles J

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