Postcard: Telephone Operator at a Switchboard

Authors

Bell Crosby

Files

Identifier

FLSC_TJPC_01272018_1099

Publication Date

9-12-1908

Description

This black and white photographic postcard features a man sitting at a switchboard for telephone service. He is wearing a suit and has a headset on his head. A clock and calendar are in the background. A window and radiator are on the left side of the card. Handwriting is on the back of the card.

Physical Description

4"x 5" photographic postcard

Subject

Lebanon (Kan.), Smith County (Kan.), Nora Springs (Iowa), Correspondence, Telephone operators, Telephone switchboards

Rights

This item is in the public domain

Publisher

Digitized by Forsyth Digital Collections

Collection

Tim Johnson Postcard Collection

Repository

Forsyth Library Special Collections

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Crosby, Bell, "Postcard: Telephone Operator at a Switchboard" (1908). Tim Johnson Postcard Collection. 1003.
https://scholars.fhsu.edu/tj_postcards/1003

Language

eng

Transcription

(sic)Male Telephone Operator Midget Hello Bell hear is our little man he is as large as ena man except his legs is short. i am well arnamted with his and his folks and Jennie and his sister is charms he started with a penney shol about 3 weeks ago ask hermon how he is he knows him from Jane paw is the forchen Mrs. Bell Crosby Nora Springs Iowa