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Creator:
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
Publisher:
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
Description:
Black and white photograph of “Plate No. 185 – Switchboard” at the McClure Plant near Dead River in Marquette County
Location:
Marquette (Michigan, United States)
Worktype:
Black and white photograph
Type:
Image
Source:
Image from page 661 of 1918 Mining Agents Annual Report
Date:
1918
Format:
TIF
Identifier:
Volume 1989
Repository:
Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives
Rights:
Restrictions on Use:
Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Archives of Michigan Permission to Duplicate Form:
www.michigan.gov/documents/hal/hal_mhc_am_Photo_Permissio...
Restrictions on Access:
There are no restrictions on accessing material in these record groups.
Rights Holder
Michigan State Archives
Collection:
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company (CCI) Records
Record Group:
MS86-100
Series:
Two: Agents Annual Report
Link to Project Website:
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/52915
This image was scanned from a photograph in the University's historical photographic collection held by Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
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Immediately next door to the switchboard, down at the end of the hall, was the office of the Dean of foreign students. The Dean, Nelson Nee, was the biggest Chinese guy I had ever met, and he used to come in and drink coffee and shoot the bull with us. Reportedly, he used to teach Kung Fu when he was in the US Marines.
Many years later I was sitting in the coffee shop of the President hotel in Taipei, Taiwan when I heard them paging a "Mr. Nee". I got to thinking about Nelson, and also that in all my years roaming around the Far East I'd never run into anyone named "Nee". I got up, paid my bill, and walked out into the lobby and there was Nelson. He was working at a California University he said, and we had a good chat catching up on old times.
It's a small world!
Creator:
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
Publisher:
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
Description:
Black-and-white photograph of “Plate No. 210 - Switchboard for Hoist at #9 Shaft” at the Republic Mine.
Location:
Republic (Michigan, United States)
Worktype:
Black-and-white photograph
Type:
Image
Source:
Image from page 700 of 1920 Mining Agents Annual Report
Date:
1920
Format:
TIF
Identifier:
Volume 1991
Repository:
Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives
Rights:
Restrictions on Use:
Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Archives of Michigan Permission to Duplicate Form:
www.michigan.gov/documents/hal/hal_mhc_am_Photo_Permissio...
Restrictions on Access:
There are no restrictions on accessing material in these record groups.
Rights Holder
Michigan State Archives
Collection:
Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company (CCI) Records
Record Group:
MS86-100
Series:
Two: Agents Annual Report
Link to Project Website:
The Human Switchboard formed in 1977 when Bob Pfeifer met Myrna Marcarian at Syracuse University. They spent that summer back in Cleveland, where Pfeifer grew up. They, along with drummer Ron Metz, recorded an EP of four songs, enlisting David Thomas of Pere Ubu to mix the tapes. The EP was self released during that fall.
The band next recorded their 'I Gotta Know / NO' single for Akron's Clone Records during a spring break in 1978. By this time, Pfeifer and Metz had moved to Columbus to Attend Ohio State University. Marcarian soon followed after her year at Syracuse and the band had formed as a three piece. After the school year ended, the band started playing shows, with its first in the basement of local Columbus High Street record store, Magnolia Thunderpussy.
Soon after the summer of 1978, the band moved back to Cleveland briefly and then opened a used record store in Kent, Ohio. This store was to provided support for the band, which it did for the following three years.
In the next few months, the band started playing shows in the area and gained followings in the Kent, Akron, Dayton, Columbus, Detroit and Pittsburgh regions. In 1979, the band recorded its next single at one of the better Cleveland studios named SUMA. With the help of Kent's famed The Numbers Band (15-60-75), they recorded their next single 'Prime of My Life / In My Room', later to be released on the band's own Square label.
After the release of the single, the band met bass player Dave Schramm who helped round out the sound. Shortly thereafter, they were invited to play at Hurrah, the premier new wave night club in New York City. The club was impressed enough with the sound that they invited them back to play regularly. At the same time, the band also started playing other legendary clubs such as Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ, The Rat in Boston and the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. They continued playing more dates in New York with a new bass player George Scott III, formerly of the Eight Eyed Spy, James White and the Blacks and The Raybeats. The East Coast was becoming very friendly to them, but they still lacked a major record release.
At this time, a fan recorded and released a 'bootleg' with the band's blessing and help. The rough cassette recordings captured a couple of their exciting live shows in the Akron and Kent area. The 1,000 copies pressed had sold quickly and their following was certainly established.
The Dublin LGBTQ Pride Festival is an annual series of events which celebrates lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) life in Dublin, Ireland. It is the largest LGBTQ pride festival in Ireland. The festival culminates in a pride parade which is held in June. The event has grown from a one-day event in 1974 to a ten-day festival celebrating LGBT culture in Ireland with an expanded arts, social and cultural content.
The Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum (本川小学校平和資料館 Honkawa Shogakkou Heiwa Shiryokan) is a museum of the Peace in Honkawacho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan. The school was the closest school to ground zero and lost about 400 students and more than 10 teachers, taking great damage from the atomic bomb dropped on August 6, 1945.
The Peace Museum is the part of the school building with the basement of the former Hiroshima City Honkawa Elementary School; it is kept as a place to learn about the importance of peace.
The museum is operated by the PTA, as well as former members of the PTA, and is cleaned and maintained by the students.
A memorial service for the students and teachers killed in the blast is held every August 5 at the school.
Lots of action: relays, coils repeat induction and retard, condensers, the night alarm, you can see it all in this one (all but the drops and jacks).
The first manual telephone switchboard was installed at the Mallala Post Office in 1913. The telephonists worked shifts during the day and a young man slept on the premises between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. to answer emergency calls. The first subscriber in 1913 was East Bros & Co Pty Ltd - their number being Mallala 1. In the early days a network of telephone lines spread out to connecting points from which farmers rigged up their own lines to their properties. The Mallala Exchange was converted to automatic computer operation on 18th June 1980. The Switch board comprised three sections. One section is now on display at the Mallala Museum.
“After the fall of France in June 1940, the main North Atlantic convoy routes were diverted around the north of Ireland through the north-western approaches. By late 1940, the location of the Combined Operations headquarters at Plymouth was increasingly awkward and the decision was taken to move the Combined Operations headquarters to Liverpool. On 7 February 1941, the headquarters was established at Derby House, Liverpool, with a secondary control bunker built in Magee College, Derry. The headquarters of No. 15 Group RAF (part of Coastal Command) moved to Liverpool at the same time. On 17 February 1941 Admiral Sir Percy Noble was appointed as the new Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches Command.
“Over the next two years, Admiral Noble built up the bases for the North Atlantic escort groups at Greenock on the Clyde, Derry and Liverpool and set up the training facilities that were the foundations for eventual victory in the Battle of the Atlantic.
“On 19 November 1942, Admiral Max Horton replaced Admiral Noble; Horton then was Commander-in-Chief until Western Approaches Command closed on 15 August 1945.
“Horton’s leadership played a vital role in the final defeat of the U-boat menace. Horton used the increasing number of escorts that were available to the command to organise ‘support groups’ that were used to reinforce convoys that came under attack. Unlike the regular escort groups, the support groups were not directly responsible for the safety of any particular convoy. This freedom gave them much greater tactical flexibility, allowing the support groups to detach ships to hunt submarines spotted by reconnaissance or picked up by high-frequency direction finding (HF/DF). In situations where the regular escorts would have had to return to their convoy, the support groups were able to persist in hunting a submarine for many hours until it was forced to the surface.”
Source: Wikipedia
The Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum (本川小学校平和資料館 Honkawa Shogakkou Heiwa Shiryokan) is a museum of the Peace in Honkawacho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan. The school was the closest school to ground zero and lost about 400 students and more than 10 teachers, taking great damage from the atomic bomb dropped on August 6, 1945.
The Peace Museum is the part of the school building with the basement of the former Hiroshima City Honkawa Elementary School; it is kept as a place to learn about the importance of peace.
The museum is operated by the PTA, as well as former members of the PTA, and is cleaned and maintained by the students.
A memorial service for the students and teachers killed in the blast is held every August 5 at the school.
Switchboard operator in Alarm House behind Station 1 on March 30, 1960. Copyright Raleigh News & Observer. Used with permission.
These power switches still have the old labels on them, which give away a bit of the old days of the City Theater. Changing rooms, 'area before old Orchestra Pit', bathrooms, elevator.
Deep in the bowels of peterborough Wentworth St / Preiestgate telephone exchange, i spotted this blast from the past, from what im told it some of the infrastructure dates back to world war II again i'm led to beleive this was the disaster control as it was located below ground level .....
The phone # is partially stuck to the plastic cover, but it appears to be the old number of J. Muller International in Chicago. Note that it is not a XXn-nnnn number, indicating this board was in use into the 1970s.
Switchboard operator in Alarm House behind Station 1 on March 30, 1960. Copyright Raleigh News & Observer. Used with permission.
A switchboard operator in the Iowa building answers calls in Des Moines, Iowa in June 1952. Photo courtesy National Archives and Records Administration.
This was taken with a EF 50mm f/1.8 II "nifty fifty" lens on a EOS 500n body (The body cost about $13 form an online auction) - a very cheap yet effective film set up. Oh, and the film, Kodak ISO 400 36 Exp. was already in the camera when I bought it, with only 4 previous exposures (an additional bargain!)
Part of a series of three murals in Naperville, Illinois titled "Pillars of the Community", celebrating important people, places, and events in Naperville's 20th century history. This panel depicts Grace Fredenhagen, Judge Win Knoch, doctors and nurses at Edward Sanitarium, two switchboard operators, the Martin Mitchell mansion and George Martin and his daughter, Caroline Martin Mitchell. The artist is Dodie Mondero.