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23 photos and 3 illustrations tagged switchboard, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

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• telephone
• operator
• cordboard
• privatebranchexchange
• rotarydial
• pbx
• pacifictelephone
• bellsystem
• rohrfactory
• stepbystep
• westernelectric
• attendantconsole
• 608aattendantconsole
• bldigital
• publicdomain
• vol0
• mechanicalcurator
• women
• large
• sherlocknet:tag=build
• sherlocknet:tag=john
• sherlocknet:tag=house
• sherlocknet:tag=general
• sherlocknet:tag=busy

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• SDASM Archives 7 photos & illustrations
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 3 photos & illustrations
• British Library 3 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 2 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Virginia 2 photos & illustrations
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 2 photos & illustrations
• LSE Library 1 photo / illustration
• The National Archives UK 1 photo / illustration
• Nationaal Archief 1 photo / illustration
• Randolph Historical Society 1 photo / illustration
• East Riding Archives 1 photo / illustration

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CO 1069-43-49

from The National Archives UK

• davidclark3 said:

  This shows a young Kwame Nkrumah visiting a telephone exchange

Telephone Switchboard with Ellery Thompson

from Cloyne and District Historical Society

• martrootamm said:

  Which year was the photo taken on?

• Cloyne and District Historical Society said:

  Unfortunately the photo is no labelled. Date is unknown.

23_0067463 Convair Negative Image

from SDASM Archives

• Chuck Walla said:

  Four telephone operator positions. The person at right of frame has an old-school answering machine in their cubicle. The fan-fold printouts appear to be telephone directories. I can't read the name of the switchboard/telephone system.