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Houston Street Looking North in Ft. Worth, Texas c. 1907

Description: Photograph of Houston Street looking North in Ft. Worth, Texas. In the center of the street is a boy riding a bicycle between trolley tracks towards trolleys and horse-drawn buggies. On either side of the street are tall buildings with signs such as, "Lyric Theatre", "A.J. Anderson Co Gun Store" and "Hotel Melba". Lining the street are telephone and electric poles. This photo is dated 1907 or later because the Flatiron building, constructed in 1907 can be seen on the left.
Date: 1907~
Creator: Smith Photo Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.750144 -97.329253
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Letter from Alta Berry to Linnet Moore White, June 7, 1909]

Description: Letter from Alta Berry to Claude and Linnet White in which she discusses her health and farming. She says that Claude is in trouble with his crops as he has been "drinking a great deal lately." He was arrested after causing a disturbance at a supper in Melissa, Texas. She also updates Linnet on the activities and health of friends and family.
Date: June 7, 1909
Creator: Berry, Alta
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[George Kelley Telephone Office]

Description: Photograph of the George Kelley Telephone Office. There is a man and a woman seated at a small table. The woman is wearing headphones and sitting in front of the telephone operations, and the man is writing on the table. The name of the telephone operator was Willie Payne.
Date: 1907/1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Collingsworth County Museum

Thine Own Wish I Wish Thee

Description: A Merry Christmas embossed color postcard depicting Santa Claus talking to a small child on the telephone. Written on the car is the phrase, "Thine Own Wish I Wish Thee". Correspondence on the back reads, "Hurry, Hurry, Hurry. Auntie can't hardly wait to see her baby - why don't you answer any cards. Bye Bye Auntie". It is addressed to Miss Rosa Louise Dill, 417 High street, Oklahoma City, Okla. It is postmarked Paris, Texas on Dec 18, 1908.
Date: 1907
Creator: Clapsaddle, Ellen H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes

[Telephone Crew]

Description: Photograph of Texas telephone line crew posing with tools. The child in front is William Donald Stephenson. The names of the crewmen are written below the photo.
Date: 1908~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midwestern State University

[Hello, Mama!]

Description: Color postcard with an image of a young girl on the telephone while standing on a chair close to a desk. Below the image is the text, 'Hello, Mama!" Handwritten is, "Why don't you say 'Hello Aunt Rosa,' cause she's the one who wants to hear and see you."
Date: 1906~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Private Collection of Joe E. Haynes

Telephone Switchboard, Richardson, Texas

Description: Woman switchboard operator, seated at manual switchboard, wearing earphones. Pictures on wall, including advertisement for Remington typewriter with female typist. Numerous wires and connectors visible. The woman has been identified variously as Stella Moody, Mayfair Griffin, and Mrs. Strait, wife of Bill Strait, telephone lineman.
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Richardson Public Library

Richardson Telephone Company Exchange, Richardson, Texas

Description: Oliver Harben standing; Mayfair? Griffin, operator, sitting in front of telephone switchboard equipment; Mattie Lucas Lawler Blewett Parks sitting against wall. Tall cabinet in foreground. Written on back: Written on back: Oliver Harben [standing], Mayfair? Griffin [sitting, wearing headphones], Mattie Lucas Lawler Blewett Parks [sitting]
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Richardson Public Library

[Telephone Line Crew Camp]

Description: Photograph of Texas long-distance telephone line crew camp. Donald Stephenson (4th from the left) accidentally blew off the index and middle fingers on his left hand when a dynamite cap exploded in his hand during this time.
Date: 1908~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midwestern State University

Insulator

Description: Patent for an insulator to be used to attach electric conductors and wires to walls or posts. Illustrations included.
Date: December 29, 1908
Creator: Marshall, George B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone Attachment.

Description: Patent for a telephone attachment for multi-party lines, which allows the user to hold the line against eavesdropping by other users on the line and let multiple people use the line at the same time.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Mitchell, Charles B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone Signal

Description: Patent for a telephone signal. This invention relates to electrically operated signals whereby a visual signal for indicating when a telephone rings. Illustration included.
Date: December 11, 1906
Creator: Jordan, Thomas P. & Carden, George A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Switch Cord Plug

Description: Patent for a switch cord plug that can be adapted to cords and used with telephone switchboards. Illustrations included.
Date: April 28, 1908
Creator: Smith, Eugene Lamar
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone Signal

Description: Patent for a telephone signals. This inventions is a switchboard drop of the visual signal for magneto system at a central office. Illustration included.
Date: January 8, 1907
Creator: Schuessler, Gustavus W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone System.

Description: Patent for improvements to an automatic switchboard "to provide a construction of board and a connected system of wiring which will permit a subscriber at a telephone in one town to call up the operator or central at a distant point and converse with him without operating the other instruments in his town and at the same time preventing other subscribers from breaking into the line" (lines 12-20).
Date: December 23, 1902
Creator: Wright, Wayne C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone-Switch

Description: Patent for a telephone switch. "This invention relates to switches for telephone and more particularly to shifting devices for short-circuiting certain classes of lines, and the object is to provide a system of cutting off communication in what are called 'party' lines" (line 8-13). Illustration included.
Date: April 30, 1907
Creator: Mount, Timothy S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone System.

Description: Patent for, "telephone system; and it has for one object to provide such an arrangement of the instrument and wiring as will permit a subscriber to converse with a second subscriber" (lines 8-12).
Date: December 11, 1900
Creator: Bennett, William W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone Transmitter and Receiver

Description: Patent for a telephone transmitter and receiver. The device is for lines "known as 'long-distance' telephones for the purpose of taking up the weakened vibrations and re-energizing them...transmitting them with increased volume" (line 12-15) illustration included.
Date: June 30, 1903
Creator: Sammons, Oliver P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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