Switchboard Collection

The New Magic: Sending Pictures by Wireless and the Unescapable Telephone, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume II, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

Detail of a switchboard in a dynamo room, between 1900 and 1905. Creator: Unknown
Detail of a switchboard in a dynamo room, between 1900 and 1905

U.S.S. Oregon switchboard in dynamo room, between 1896 and 1901. Creator: Edward H Hart
U.S.S. Oregon switchboard in dynamo room, between 1896 and 1901

House Office Building - Telephone Exchange, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
House Office Building - Telephone Exchange, 1912

Radio, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Radio, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Radio, between 1910 and 1920. USA

Poro College; The publicity department; Telephone switch board, 1922. Creator: Unknown
Poro College; The publicity department; Telephone switch board, 1922

Telephone operators, between 1914 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Telephone operators, between 1914 and 1917
Telephone operators, between 1914 and 1917. USA. Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator when she was hired in 1878

First transatlantic telephone call, from London to New York, 7 March 1926, (1935). Ringing Up " Uncle Sam"...the actual scene at the switchboard when London spoke to America by radio

Hump master in a Chicago and North Western railroad yard operating a signal... Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern [i.e. North Western] railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track

London-New York Telephone Service, c1930. Creator: Unknown
London-New York Telephone Service, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne]

Telephonists at the Fire Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth, London, 1940
Telephonists at the Fire Brigade Headquarters, Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, London, 1940. Interior of the telephone exchange showing telephonists sitting at the switchboard

Female workers in the telephone room, New York Stock Exchange, USA, early 1930s. Artist
Female workers in the telephone room, New York Stock Exchange, USA, early 1930s

Inside a New York telephone exchange, USA, early 1930s

Switch board operator, Spillers Animal Foods, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, 1960. Artist
Switch board operator, Spillers Animal Foods, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, 1960. A late 1950s style plug in telephone switch board

To Sit There And Carry On as though nothing was happening outside was not easy, 1941 (1942). G.P.O and Control Centre telephonists were called upon to do their ordinary jobs coolly

Switchboard operators at work, early 20th century

Edison carbon telephone, 1879. Wood engraving

Central Telephone Exchange, Paris, 1883. Central Telephone Exchange, rue de Lafayette, Paris, staffed by female telephonists. From Louis Figuier Les Nouvelles Conquetes de la Science, Paris, 1883

Telephone switchboard, 1956

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