If you think this is a miracle just you wait!
People Weekly December 30th 1974
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"There's a Christmas rush on telephone wires, too. Help keep war-crowded circuits clear on Dec 24, 25, and 26. Please use Long Distance only if it is vital. War needs the wires--even on holidays." (1940s)
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Photograph of Women Working at a Bell System Telephone Switchboard
Record Group 86: Records of the Women's BureauSeries: Women Working In Industry
This black and white photograph from 1943 shows a wall of telephone equipment. A line of about two dozen women telephone operators wearing headsets sit before the equipment connecting calls with wires that they plug into various exchange receptacles. Two other women are standing behind the line of seated women, also working. One is handing a note to a seated operator while another is talking into a headset. Small plates with the name of a city on each are placed above the telephone exchanges at regular intervals. Above the equipment is a sign listing cities in North and South America.
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Give Telephones This Christmas, 1957 ad
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1942 Bell Telephone Systems World War 2 advertisement
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The Pick of Santa’s Pack – Bell Telephone System Ad – McCalls December 1963
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St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1930. "Southwestern Bell Telephone Building, Pine Street."
Photo by American Commercial Photographers
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If you ever use an old dial phone today the sound quality will make you want to find the person who invented signal compression and slap them upside the head with a Manhattan phone-book.
Life December 13, 1963
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"Reach for the telephone and share the news" (1959)
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