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Historical Photos of the Bell System

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The following photos were contributed to this web site by Edward Kelly.

Some text under photos are hyper- linked to text-file descriptions of photo:

Block Cable	Cross-connecting terminal used to connect underground cable to aerial cable or aerial to house cable	LIU Compare the photo above with this photo of a modern Verizon vehicle.	LTD 14-2
		LIU	#14 Test Desk
Ice damaged lines	Line Crew and Line Truck	Earth boring machine	Line truck and equipment
Splicer tool cart (also see this)	Red Bank NJ ice storm open wire	White line truck rear view	White line truck with boom set
Device used to send inductive tone along pair cabling		Device used to send inductive tone along pair cabling
Device used to send inductive tone along pair cabling
Loading the barge	Cable Queen	Diver going down.	Laying cable at a river crossing
Fouled Anchor	Cable Laying
Cable-fault locating bureau(?)	Pump	Splice on submarine cable	Transmitter and Reciever
Front cable barge, cable ship, in background New York Central RR steam tug	The Lineman and Supervisor on deck. When I worked on submarine cable it came armored. It looks like they are wrapping it with steel wire.	I I think this is the transmitter for locating buried cable	Unloading submarine cable from reel to barge.
The six photos to the right are from the September 1956 New Jersey Bell magazine.	Mack Line Truck 50's	Messenger Service Truck.  Click HERE for description	GMC supply truck. Supply Trucks pulled out of the Western Electric Warehouse
		Dodge cable-line maintenance truck	LIU
Rodder or Rodding Truck	Cable spicing in manhole (Read THIS)	Pulling underground cable	Pulling underground
Reel end	Placing Load Pot	The reel end	Another Duct Rodding Truck
		Rodder or Rodding Truck	Splicer's Trailer? (also see this)

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