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Description
Title
Western
Electric
Wall
Telephone
Subject
Science and Technology
Daily Life
Telephones
Place
Euclid (Ohio)
Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description
This
crank-style
telephone
was
typical
of
phones
used
throughout
the
United
States
from
1916
through
the
1930s
. The
oak
telephone
is
a
Western
Electric
317
and was
one
of the
earliest
phones
to be
used
in
private
homes
.
Users
talked
into the
transmitter
on the
front
while
listening
in the
receiver
,
located
on a
cable
on the
left
side
. This
model
features
a
writing
shelf
at the
bottom
. The
telephone
is
19
"
high
by
8
"
wide
(48.26
by
20.32
cm)
.
Creator
Western Electric
Date of Original
1916
-
1939
circa
Source
Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
77.188.2
Submitting Institution
Euclid Historical Museum
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om2383_2559938_001.tif
Image Height
2176
Image Width
1871
File Size
1177.417 KB
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