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The following photos are from Perce Cox:
Legend for Pictures is as follows
- LL Test Board 1915
- Long Lines Test Board, Morrell Park, Illinois Picture # S 20760
- Boston Tremont 1883
- The first Tremont office at 485 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass. Picture # H
29301-1
- Central Information 1920
- Central information bureau, St. Louis Missouri Picture # S 16691
- Pratt KS 1900 -
Maze of wires in Pratt, Kansas Picture # S 1030
- Placing Poles 1880
- Placing poles in Troy, New York Picture # S 20914
- Mobile RT 1924 -
Mobile Radio Telephone Picture # S 19299
- House Installer 1917
- Outside House Installation Picture # S 20666
- 3 Horse Truck 1913
- A Western Electric’s three horse truck at Pittsburgh, PA with a load of
distributing wire Picture # S 20636
- Operators 1917 -
Traffic Operators in Orangeburg, South Carolina Picture # S 20793
- Final Pole 1900 -
the final pole of the first transcontinental telephone line is put into
service at Wendover, Utah Picture # M 810
Perce stated, "Pictures were obtained free from a display
at AT&T Long lines in New York in the late 1950's. There were stacks of each
picture and we were told to help ourselves to any we wanted."
On the back of the pictures the following is stamped:
Superior Fototech Inc. for re-orders
AT&T Photo File No. (then the picture # listed above for each picture)
Click on small images
below to view full-size:
LL Test
Board 1915 |
Boston
Tremont 1883 |
Central
Information 1920 |
Pratt KS 1900 |
Placing Poles 1880 |
Mobile RT 1924 |
House
Installer 1917 |
3 Horse Truck
1913 |
Operators
1917 |
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and last, but not
least . . . |
Final Pole 1900 |
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