#switchboard

[thunderstruck9]

Edward Wadsworth (British, 1889-1949), Number Please!, 1942. Tempera on paper, 12 5/8 x 14 1/8 in.

#edward wadsworth #british art #english art #switchboard #operator #operators

[vizreef]

Cute little Radio Station Switchboard (Finland, 1990s)

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#switchboard #tech

[scavengedluxury]

Post and Telegraph Office Switchgear on display at the Millennium Exhibition, Budapest, 1896. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

#budapest #hungary #old tech #switchboard #telegraph #1890s

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (C&P Telephone) Photograph Collection. 1954

#C&P #telephone #phone #switchboard #1950s #telephone operator #hairstyle

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Trypophobia

#telecoms #switchboard #catalina island

[markgatissbirthdayproject]

The auction list is here!

There are probably 6000 issues with the links etc and I am working them all out. Hopefully, not too many! And at least you will have an idea as to what is out there this year! Thanks to everyone who offered fanfics, items and fan works!

If something doesn't work, send me a message here or @antheas-blackberry and I will try to fix it!

And if I got your username wrong, let me know that too!

So the auction works the same as other years. If you would like to bid on an item, click the link and it brings you to a google form. Fill in your email and the amount you would like to bid.

Now, this year I MAY (not sure yet, so we will see) have figured out how to get the bids to go to a spreadsheet so you can all see what is going on without me having to update the page with the high bid every day. If not, I will just update the list every day with the highest bid.

The auction will remain open until the 10th of October. This gives me time to make sure all the links are working and deal with any initial issues. On the 10th I will close the pages for bids and then update the Tumblr page with the final total.

Once I have the highest bid, I will email the donor and the winner and then they can work it out how to deliver the item/fanfic once the donation has been made to Switchboard. All I need is proof of your donation (i.e a forward of the confirmation email).

This has worked well over the past few years and everyone who is literally sending an item has agreed to pay for postage. If this ends up being an issue later on, let me know, and I can work it out.

If you just want to donate to Switchboard without participating, that's fine too. You can donate using the link here.

Fanfic #1 donated by @eventhorizon451 (~5000 words, Mystrade)

Fanfic #2 donated by @lavenderandvanilla (~5000 words, Mystrade)

Grab bag #1 (Mark Gatiss focused) donated by @lavenderandvanilla

Grab bag #2 (Mycroft focused) donated by @lavenderandvanilla

Grab bag #3 (Mystrade focused) donated by @lavenderandvanilla

Ghost Stories donated by Ebony and @romany-walker

A Christmas Carol donated by Ebony and @romany-walker

Mycroft artwork donated by Ebony and @romany-walker

Fanfic #3 donated by Ebony and @romany-walker

Tiny felt Mycroft donated by @baker-street-dolls

Fanfic #4 donated by @johannadc

2024 Magnet donated by @eys93

Grab bag donated by @eys93

The Motive and the Cue program donated by @antheas-blackberry

Grab bag #4 from @lavenderandvanilla

Fanfic of 2-5000 words from @fluffylittleclouds

Hopefully, this was clear! Let me know if not!

#mark gatiss #mark gatiss birthday project #sherlock #fundraising #switchboard #doctor who #the league of gentlemen #mycroft holmes #the madness of george iii #good omens #good omens 2

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Before telephone trees, there were real live human beings who answered calls and actually tried to help. This 1923 photo is captioned, "The big switchboard in the Grand Central Terminal Information Bureau. William P. Walsh, Manager, is at the desk to the right. Courtesy and helpfulness are the watchwords of the Bureau."

Source: NY Central Lines Magazine via Wikimedia Commons

#vintage New York #1920s #help desk #switchboard #Grand Central #railroad #help #Grand Central Station #vintage railroad #vintage NYC #information office

[emeraldexplorer2]

Telephone Operators, 1950's

#vintage #americana #vintage americana #telephone #telephone operator #switchboard #1950's

[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

1935 technology

#gif #vintage technology #technology #1935 #film #black and white #telephone #operator #switchboard #switchboard operator

[raph-stims]

Mackenzie, you know what's here now, you don't need to keep coming back to this place.

gif one: a pale hand flipping read covers and then metallic, rounded switches which, in turn, turned on a light showing that whatever the switches being flipped, enabled or turned something on

gif two: a point of view shot in a car driving in a tunnel and coming out the other end, with light flooding into the tunnel

gif three: the helmet of an astronaut diving towards the earth

gif four: a feminine looking white person in a large pool tube going down a waterslide. the slides cover lights up in red, blue, yellow, and white lights.

image: Mackenzie, a black and white border collie from the show Bluey. there is purple yarn tied around his waist and he is midfall, standing on one foot and both of his legs are in the air.

gif five: a white person sliding down a water slide, the slide tube cover lights up in blue and white lights for a bit, goes dark and then lights up in blue stars.

gif six: a point of view shot in a space station pointing at the earth, filled with clouds

gif seven: a point of view shot inside a car, where the car is driving through a tunnel, then coming out the other end, where you can see a purple sky sunset

gif eight: a white hand spinning some kind of white handled bit on a space station switchboard. the hand spins the bit and it spins so hard it starts to float off the board.

#Bluey #Bluey Space #Mackenzie Border Collie #space #astronaut #earth #space station #switch #switchboard #slide #waterslide #tunnel #stimblr #stim #stimmy #stimming #stimboard #tw hands

[vintagepromotions]

‘Sure, I’ve made 41,000,000 telephones ... but what else do I make?’

Western Electric advertisement (1946).

#vintage advertisement #1940s #western electric #telephone #manufacturing #electronics #office equipment #communications #usa #phone #switchboard

[vizreef]

Section of a CB1 manual telephone exchange switchboard  // UK 1925 -1960

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#switchboard #vintage telephones

[taperwolf]

My city's downtown has a big old building that used to house all the AT&T stuff. When I first came to town, I got a job taking phone orders for a mail-order company that sells holiday gifts, food baskets and suchlike. Internet shopping didn't exist then, so from November through December they had rented out a couple of floors of the building to set up phones and old IBM terminals for the seasonal employees to enter in the nonstop phone orders.

Down on the first floor, near windows that looked out on the street, they used to have a sort of mini-museum display of old switchboards. And the other day I discovered that while whoever now owns the building has taken down the signs, the switchboards are still there.

(This is the best shot I could get at the time; I had to block the reflections with my body and a tote bag to see past the glass at all.)

#vintage tech #vintage telephone #telephone system #switchboard

[mudwerks]

(via Bell System: 1942 | Shorpy)

July 1942. "Oakridge, Oregon. Population 520. Town telephone switchboard." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

#Oakridge #oregon #switchboard #small town #telephone #vintage #photography #1942 #Russell Lee #Farm Security Administration

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (C&P Telephone) Photograph Collection. 1954

#virginia #va #richmond #C&P #telephone #switchboard #telephone operators #1950s

[thebloggingfox]

I don't post enough pics of my boy, so observe the boy

#cat #kitty #baby #baby boy #boy #the boy #switch #switchy #switchboard #racoon #bed #baby bed #playmat #look at him curled up on his little baby mat #using his litw squishy racoon as a pillow #look at his little smile