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Image Description: Two telephone switchboard operators at the North Dakota Agricultural College.
Date Original: June 6, 1923
Item Number: ua000407
North Dakota State University. Digital Collections: www.digitalhorizonsonline
Ordering Information: http://library.ndsu.edu/archives/collections-institute/photography/reproductions/
The Pay Phone has been hanging on the wall in the hallway for 17 years, and I had the other old phone related parts in a box in the basement. Today I decided to trade them out.
The candlestick phone is from the 1890s through 1920, when it had its last upgrade to a dial phone.
Underneath that, is an office switch board for a 5 phone system from Downey, California from approximately 1925-30, and below that is a 4 line rural switchboard from a very small exchange.
And to ring the bell at the top of the stack, is a magneto at the bottom.
L-R: Nora, Mildred, Godfrey, Mary, and Velma French, our boss at the University Switchboard. Velma was having a birthday and is holding her cake. The bulletin board at right was where Tom and the rest of us constantly left teasing, taunting cartoons and writings to harass these "girls". They loved the attention at least as much as we enjoyed teasing them.
In 1941, it was conveyed to the REC that 'A certain gentleman' wished for quarters to be set up for him at Down Street station. Having stayed at the REC headquarters, Churchill was impressed by his experience. The only space left was a passageway that London Transport engineers had asked to be kept empty as they knew that construction in that passageway would cause problems with ventilation for the Piccadilly line. Nevertheless, construction went ahead and was completed ahead of schedule. However, by then the Cabinet War Rooms had been reinforced and Churchill didn't need to use the quarters at Down Street.
"Down Street, also known as Down Street (Mayfair), is a disused station on the London Underground, located in Mayfair, west London. It was opened in 1907 by the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. It was latterly served by the Piccadilly line and was situated between Dover Street (now named Green Park) and Hyde Park Corner stations.
"The station was little used and trains often passed through it without stopping. Its lack of patronage coupled with its proximity to other stations resulted in its closure in 1932. During the Second World War it was used as a bunker by prime minister Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet.
"The main occupant of the shelter was the Railway Executive Committee, but it was also used by prime minister Winston Churchill and his war cabinet until the Cabinet War Rooms were ready for use. Churchill called the establishment at Down Street 'The Barn'."
Source: Wikipedia
Ludwig Hein (1855-1933) came to Texas from Germany in 1877. He married Rosa Treiber of Waring and built this home for his family before 1900. Hein operated a blacksmith shop next door until the family moved to San Antonio in 1914. The home was known as the "nerve center " of Comfort when the local telephone switchboard was housed here from 1923 to 1955. Features of the Victorian house include its front bay windows and bracketed porch supports. (1987) (Marker No. 3145)
The head trio of the electricians at Millaquin Sugar Mill admire the good work on the recently installed switchboard for the 2MW T/A Set.
Velma French and Helen Bounds sorting through the paperwork. There's a lot more to running a switchboard than answering the phone!
This old switchboard was hanging out at the Wilshire Ebell in a fairly dark second story hallway at the top of the stairs. You could easily walk past it and not notice it.
Don't know why, but it made me think of the Andy Griffith Show.
“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
Bell Telephone Switchboard and Operator c. 1920
From the Albert Barden Collection, State Archives; Raleigh, NC.
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
"When dial service came to Round Rock on October 27, 1951, telephone personnel Fred Fullerton, Alex Gordon, W. D. Graves, Mrs. Roy Ross and Mrs. Betsy Nehring posed for one last picture around the "number, please" switchboard that was replaced by the automatic dial equipment."
(From "Round Rock, Texas, U.S.A.!!!" page 173)
Here's my Stork.Now when I was a Switchboard Operator I worked in a Company. There were some wonderful people working there. I was leaving the company in December 1985 to have my daughters and one of the men in the Factory made this Stork for me. It was a horrible redy colour underneath, and it had a stand. But I thought the world of it (Still do) as they had taken the time and trouble to make it for me. I covered it in felt years after (you know what I'm like with remodelling!) and stuck two pictures of my babies by the beak and put their names on. This hangs in our bedroom over the bed.( Haven't got anywhere else). It reminds me of the lovely people I knew and also of my work days! (I did work once upon a time!:)