Playing Operator on a Vintage Telephone Switchboard by Allison Meier July 12, 2016 July 12, 2016. Subscribe to our newsletter.

A Kellogg/Stromberg-Carlson hotel switchboard brought $1,500 last year. A $510.99 oak tabletop cabinet switchboard also sold in 2011. When describing the unit, provide as many hard facts as possible.

There’s not an iPhone in sight at the Gridley Telephone Museum.  Vintage telephony is the star at the McLean County museum, ...

From floor to ceiling, there are phones, phones and more phones. Inside a former feed building, just 20 by 36 feet, are 345 phones (plus several hundred more in a storeroom), six telephone booths ...

Vintage Telephone Museum Completely Destroyed by California Wildfire Founder and owner John K La Rue sought out hundreds of rare and historic telephones dating from the 1880s to the present.

Section of a CB1 manual telephone exchange switchboard with positions for three operators, unknown maker, British, 1925-1960. In use at Enfield Telephone Exchange 22 July 1925 to 5 October 1960 ...

With a smartphone in hand, it’s easy to forget where telecommunications started. But, in the dawn of telephone communications, counties and cities directed calls via an operator through a manually ...

Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Portrait of a telephone switchboard operator, 1957. Walter Sanders—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Women phone operators on Wall ...

Then it all went away. In the 1920s, as telephone coverage was expanding and the ranks of operators were growing, AT&T began to roll out a “mechanical switching” system in which people would ...