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Collection: Benedictine University Archives, Benedictine University Library
Title: May 2007 Photo of the Month: [Unknown Switchboard Operator]
Date: 1974
Place: North America: U.s.; Lisle, IL; Illinois Benedictine College
Type: 8x10 Photograph
Description: This photograph was taken in 1974, but the switchboard you see being used here was in service on the Benedictine campus until around 1980. It is a Bell System (probably in the Model 500 series), manufactured by Western Electric during the late 1940s. Although telephone companies stopped using systems like this long before 1980, this switchboard was the only method of routing calls in and out of campus during this time. If you’d like to see it up close, stop by the 4th floor of the Library—it currently resides in the Archives & Special Collections reading room.
Photo ID: M-0002
Photographer: unknown
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Benedictine University Library which is making it freely available through a Creative Commons license with the request that the Library be credited as its source.
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nrhp # 87001730- As the little town grew and developed, the citizens felt the need for a community hall. In 1908 the Selby Development Company was formed to construct the Opera House. Cement sidewalks had been built on several blocks of Main Street and several residential streets.
The grand opening for the Opera House was Dec.7th and the 8th, 1908 with the "Famous" Dougherty Stock Co. Mon. the 7th was a Quaker Tradgey and Tues. the 8th was a 4 act play, "The Slave Girl" using special scenery. The Opera House was a busy place with many events taking place.
In April 1909, business men of the thriving city called a meeting and organized the first commercial club.
In 1910, the telephone was moved from the Prann Drug Store (Buchanan Drug) into the south room of the Opera House. Telephone office operators had a bedroom right off the switchboard room so the operator could be available in case an important call came during the night. By 1917, there was an increased demand for telephones that necessitated installing a larger switchboard. The telephone office remained there until 1951 when Northwestern Bell brought the good news that Selby's hand cranking days would soon be over. Dial service was coming and what a blessing that was.
In 1914 a moving picture machine was purchased by the Opera House company with Albert Schmidt as operator. Shows were held every Saturday night.
from selbysd.govoffice2.com
Dark Manhattan skyline. On the first night after the hurricane, the power had yet to be restored to 1 WTC.
Three phase power, Residual Current Devices on every circuit (9 power circuits, 3 light circuits, 1 range circuit). The sprawling layout of the house meant enormous amounts of cable were required - about four times the amount required to wire an average house. Add over two kilometres of data cable for the over 30 data points and you're talking a lot of wire!
The house has over 60 light fittings, 10 ceiling fans and around 55 power points. Just fitting-off all that seemed like an endless job.
wakefield, massachusetts
1957
transitron switchboard
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Deep under Liverpool city centre, Western Approaches Command was a major operational command of the Royal Navy during World War II.
The command was responsible for the safety of British shipping in the Western Approaches, a rectangular area of the Atlantic ocean lying on the western coast of Great Britain.
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Switch board Susan, won't you give me a line?
I need a doctor, give me nine ninety nine
First time I picked up the telephone
I fell in love with your ringing tone
I'm a long distance romancer
I'll keep on trying till I get an answer
Gimme, gimme one more chance
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Somehow, this sequence of numbers ensured that calls from Hamilton, Montana, reached each of the locations shown on this card attached to an old switchboard.
Telephone switchboard operators answer calls at the South telephone exchange in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1895. Photo courtesy National Archives and Records Administration.
Army Post Office Postmark Kit containing date-stamp, ink bottle and stamping pad.
Manufactured by H C Horton, general engraver and precision engineer, Malvern, Victoria.
The Australian Corps of Signals operated post and telegraph facilities where civilian services were not available. They used Army Signals and Army Telegraphs date-stamps.
Here - an illustration of a letter posted at the 9th/23rd Light Horse Regiment training camp on the Gawler Racecourse and passed to the Gawler post office for onward transmission.
DOWN THE LINE – Communication in Gawler
An exhibition at the Heritage Gallery, Gawler Civic Centre.
Exploring the importance of long-distance communication, postal service, telegraph and telephone which were vital in keeping Gawler connected to the world.
Manual Telephone Exchange
This is a subscriber telephone exchange switchboard CB type which was in service from 1950s – 1980.
Donated to the Gawler Branch of National Trust of South Australia from the Mallala Museum.
In 1884 Dr F W H Popham began lobbying to have Gawler and Adelaide connected by telephone. The Postmaster-General, Sir Charles Todd, asked for some financial guarantees from the town.
An income of £125 was guaranteed to the PMG Department: cables erected and a switchboard installed in a corner of the post office.
With three subscribers and a public telephone connected, the Gawler Telephone Exchange opened 19 February 1889.
The first subscribers were the flour millers Hilfers & Co, Harris’s general store and James Martin’s foundry. They each paid £25 per annum which included the cost of all calls.
The public could use the telephone in the post office for 1/- per 5 minutes.
Mick Russell working on the new switchboards for the secondhand 2MW T/A Set at Millaquin Sugar Mill.
1940 Actress Marie Blake AKA Grandmama Frump from the 60s The Addams Family TV Show - screen grab screengrab humor characters like from newspaper comic strips - Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald also known as Blossom Rock or Blossom MacDonald - Jeanette McDonald's sister from film - Dr. Kildare's Strange Case - playing the character of Sally Hospital Switchboard Operator
COLLECTION RECORD
Title - Modern Transportation and Communication
Relation - Democracy of the Machine
relation.type - pendantOf
relation.notes - The Iron Horse; Covered Wagon; Steamboat Around The Bend; Horseless Carriage Panel; The Busted Ford
Work, Collection or Image - Collection
refid - 191
Work Type - paintings (visual works)
Style Period -
Agent Name - Daugherty, James Henry (American painter, illustrator, and author, 1889-1974)
Agent Role - muralist (painter)
Cultural Context - American
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Subject - Progress; Transportation; Communitcation; Federal Art Project
IMAGE RECORD
Work, Collection or Image - Image
Work Type - black-and-white photographs
Style Period - New Deal
Agent Name - La Roche, Karl
Agent Role - photographer
Material - black-and-white photographs
Technique - black-and-white photography
Measurements - 10 in (H) x 7.5 in (W)
Date Created - ca. 1935-1943
Date Digital - 2009-04-29
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Source - Connecticut State Library, State Archives, RG 033, Works Progress Administration, Box 1.
Filename - wpaart_daugherty_017