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155 photos and 2 illustrations tagged telephone, from 24 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

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• libraryofcongress
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• desk
• phone
• office
• candlesticktelephone
• nationallibraryofireland
• typewriter
• switchboard
• woman
• ireland
• usnationalarchives
• man
• westernelectric
• publicdomain
• 1960s
• industry
• talkingonthephone
• leinster
• chair
• blackandwhite
• poles
• wwi
• nationallibraryofmedicine

Members using this tag

• The Library of Congress 50 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 19 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 11 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 11 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 8 photos & illustrations
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 8 photos & illustrations
• Navy Medicine 7 photos & illustrations
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 6 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 6 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Virginia 5 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 5 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 4 photos & illustrations

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Hara (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• B-59 said:

  See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/41773562784/

• Melissa (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks for the information, B-59 . We will update the record to point out Nobuko Hara was a professional opera singer.

Kings Cross, 1947

from State Library of New South Wales

• GOO ROT ☾ said:

  she's perfect

• Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:

  For some reason Boyfriend appears to be sitting in the phone box with his feet on the ledge and knees up. Tuppence a call, Pennies only.

• covid convict said:

  nla.gov.au/nla.obj-429874353/view?sectionId=nla.obj-46993... - similar photo here...same guy, possibly same girl (but wearing a different outfit)...looks like a different phone box... collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9qoalWq1/o672Ay3qpKVQD - link to this series at the SLNSW collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nZNvKKmn/LgLjlPpzroLL3 - ditto All up it's kind of interesting to see how these 'street photographs' were carefully staged...

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.