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Peoples Home Telephone Company

Description: The Peoples Home Telephone Company Directory contains phone numbers and addresses of businesses and residents in Denton and the surrounding area. The directory also includes advertisements for local businesses. The Peoples Home Telephone Company compiled the directory on December 1, 1918.
Date: December 1, 1918
Creator: Peoples Home Telephone Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Denton Public Library

North Main Street, Ft. Worth, Texas, 1914

Description: Photograph of North Main Street in Ft. Worth. The road is dirt with trolley tracks leading to trolleys in the center background. Lining the road are electricity and telephone poles and wires. Behind those are buildings and trees. Written across the bottom of the photograph is, "North Main St. from foot of Padlock Viaduct Looking North."
Date: 1914
Creator: Smith Photo Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Letter from Henry Sayles to Ed. S. Hughes, January 11, 1911]

Description: Letter from Henry Sayles to Ed. S. Hughes discussing how to handle opposition to the railroad and how to present information about the railroad to Trumbull. Sayles discusses a conference that Abilene was invited to as they will likely have a railroad as part of the Cross Plains extension. Sayles believes there is a good chance of securing a twenty-five year lease for the railroad.
Date: January 11, 1911
Creator: Sayles, Henry
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Telephone operators

Description: Toll office set up at 400 Congress Avenue due to fire which destroyed the toll bank in the telephone building at 410 Congress. Pictured L-R: Miss Anna Koch (Mrs. R. M. Ewalt), Beulah Morrow (Mrs. Beulah Davis), Clarence Oliver (Traffic Supt. for Texas ), Mrs. A. C. Newton (Toll chief operator), S. U. Barron, Marguertie Doris (Mrs. Marguerite Ravenelli), Lillie McGee, Laura Foster (Mrs. Laura Raley), Ollie Joyce (Mrs. Ollie Peterson).
Date: July 1916
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

[Wire Gang]

Description: Photograph of the wire gang, who set up the first long-distance phone lines from Waco, Texas to Belton, Texas. From left: Herbert Barrett, Frank Stone, H.C. Traylor, Srar Barrett, Chas. Straubs. The men are sitting on a wagon pulled by a couple of horses.
Date: 1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Midwestern State University

[Postcard of Berlin]

Description: Postcard of three scenes in Berlin, Germany. The left and right images feature a rooms which each have a glass display and a wall of switches. The center image features a man using a street telephone at the base of a light post.
Date: 1911
Item Type: Refine your search to only Postcard
Partner: Fire Museum of Texas

[General Emilio Campa]

Description: Photograph of General Emilio P. Campa standing next to a telephone. General Campa is seated on an old 'La Nacional Jabon (soap)' box. Campa is also holding an edition of the El Paso Herald newspaper in his hand. The Newspaper's date is not known. The newspaper's title reads in part: "Incendiary Circulars Are B...." The El Paso Herald first went into circulation in 1881. In 1931 the El Paso Herald merged with another local newspaper, the El Paso Post, and the two merged to become the El P… more
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[General Emilio Campa]

Description: Photograph of General Emilio P. Campa talking into a telephone. There is a small unidentified electronic box with a hand crank next to the telephone pole.
Date: [1910..1920]
Creator: Aultman, Otis A., 1874-1943
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: El Paso Public Library

[Memo from L. R. Hare to the President of Abilene Christian College, November 9, 1918]

Description: Memorandum from Lt. Col. L. R. Hare, commandant of the Student Army Training Corps' Simmons College Unit, to the president of "Christian College" (presumably Abilene Christian College) regarding the inflow of telegrams to Simmons that need to be redirected to Christian. Hare requests that a direct telephone line be established to facilitate this.
Date: November 9, 1918
Creator: Hare, L. R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Wireless-Telephone System.

Description: Patent for a wireless telephone system that does not require the user to flip a switch in between receiving and sending a message.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wireless Break-Key

Description: Patent for a wireless break key that allows a station to just have one aerial line and prevents burn out of the machinery and injury to operators while transmitting messages faster than other wireless devices.
Date: December 31, 1912
Creator: Mobley, Grier P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone-Call Recorder

Description: Patent for a telephone call recorder that allows the number of who is calling to be recorded when the phone is not answered and tell a person already on the phone who is trying to call them.
Date: October 15, 1912
Creator: Warwick, Harold L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone-Lighting System.

Description: Patent for an invention as specified relates to new and useful improvements in telephone lighting systems for the purpose of providing lamps on subscribers' telephones arranged.
Date: October 13, 1914
Creator: Boze, James A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spark-Gap Muffler.

Description: Patent for a spark gap muffler that muffles the sound of a spark jumping a gap between wires in wireless telephone and telegraph systems.
Date: June 27, 1911
Creator: Johnson, Maurice Bernays
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone Equipment.

Description: Patent for telephone equipment. The invention provides an easy to use attachment for automatic phones that illuminates the dial and only turns on while it is in use to facilitate the use of telephones in the dark.
Date: June 16, 1914
Creator: Haralson, William Major & Pilkington, John F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Telephone Selecting System

Description: Patent for a telephone selecting system. This invention is designed to arrange telephones attached to the same line. Illustration included.
Date: February 15, 1910
Creator: Jones, David W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Electric Switch.

Description: Patent for switches or connectors that connect sections of wires used for telephones or telegraphs
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Du Val, James Erl & Lee, Ezra A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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