Alabama white pagesyellow pages birmingham september 1950. Phone address directories international directories area code locators state abbreviations zip codes package delivery services u. Nysl holdings are listed below in alphabetical order by. Western electric 565hk key set 6 square buttons rotary yellow in box telephone. Here is a picture of the nickel plated, tapered shaft, aka oil can desk set first from left. Telephone directory collection remove available online. List of books and articles about 1950s america online. We have automatic electric, western electric, stromberg carlson, kellogg and many other vintage phones. The fall and rise of the telephone directory by philip sutton, milstein division of u. I am going to book mark your website and keep checking for new information about once per week. To save costs in printing, the use of fullcolor illustrations inside books was limited.
General telephones with a growing number of telephone subscribers to cater for and improvements in technology so too the telephone began to become more advanced. History of the telephone from the 1880s to current time. The cover page for the 1954 augusta wisconsin phone book. This cultural decade is more loosely defined than the actual decade, beginning around 1963 with the john f. Book publishing suffered, with many publishers scaling back production and illustration commissions.
Invariably in shiny black or possibly red, or industrial dark green. Around 1962 or 1963, they introduced the princess phone, which l. The curious history of the book that everyone uses but no one reads shea, ammon on. We offer a variety of old antique telephonesfor sale. Kennedy assassination and ending around 1974 with the watergate scandal. In 1899, it invested in a 54% share of the nippon electric company, ltd. Hi all, i was just watching an old movie from 1933 and it brought back memories of when i was young in the 1950s. Western electric was the manufacturing arm of the bell group of companies from the late 1800s to its demise in 1984. Telephone directory collection, available online library of. See more ideas about telephone, old things and telephone exchange. My 1950s bell system telephone booth collectors weekly. Thomas a watson 18541934 assisted bell in his experiments. This rare set is known as the oil can because of the. Bts historical phone books from 18801984 are available.
This timeline of the telephone covers landline, radio, and cellular telephony technologies and provides many important dates in the history of the telephone. Telephones have ranged in style from simplistic to ornate with color choices varying from stark black to antique gold to shocking pink and radiant red. Telephone and city directories in the library of congress. History of the telephone 19501960 timeline timetoast. Telephone books and city directories university of wisconsin. It was stored in the library basement until last year when i acquired it from a qwest telephone man. Telephone directories contain addresses and phone numbers and can be quite helpful in locating living relatives or possible relatives with the same surname or a similar surname. Because of this invention, there were now 180 million calls a day in the u. The 3slot dial payphone was introduced in the 1950s when a phone cost a nickel, and then increased to a dime for local calls. Telephone history 19501960 history of the telephone 8 events picture urls are cited last you might like.
Dial tone was first introduced into the public switched telephone network in a. Jan 2007 international events are tagged in italics every effort has been made to present a factual and unbiased historical picture of the electrical, electronics and telecommunications history. Telephone directory collection, available online, pennsylvania. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Collecting telephone books varieties of telephone books telephone directory directory first telephone book links local calling areas. The book admits that iron poles are rare, but predicted a shortage of trees for wood poles and a move toward concrete poles. An electromagnetic telegraph was created by baron schilling in 1832. Although ericssons had a coin attachment for their phones and a purposebuilt payphone as early as the 1890s, these do not appear to have been used in australia. The pushbutton telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to having a rotary dial as in earlier telephone instruments western electric experimented as early as 1941 with methods of using mechanically activated reeds to produce two tones for each of the ten digits and by the late 1940s such technology was fieldtested in a no. During the 1950s, the united states was the worlds strongest military power. The 1950s phone booth was removed from service at the university of washington library back in the early 1990s. Their downtown galesville building is a piece of history itself.
For home telephones, that meant designer colors and features, as well as convenience. New listing 1950s old fashioned rotary classic look dial pay phone vintage booth stylenew. You must wait for them to end their call before yours can be placed. Pennsylvania white pages and yellow pages fleetwood 51944 thru 51950.
The telephone emerged from the making and successive improvements of the electrical telegraph. The history of the western electric phones is something of a history of the telephone itself. The top picture is a prototype model 300 set from the 1950s with 10 buttons, laid out in two rows. The largest section of the phone book, and generally the most significant for family historians, is the alphabetical listings or directory. The finest antique telephones available old phone shop. For the timeline of the smart phone, see smartphone. All phones are professionally restored to the utmost. I blog frequently and i truly appreciate your content. Sep 2, 2016 coming from a telephone company family and as a former telephone operator now pretty much obsolete its good to remember the old times. The first telephone book had fifty listings and no numbers. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. Cover page augusta wi phone books augusta wisconsin. The rotary dial was replaced by push buttons but these early systems still used the same technology behind the dial so called pulse dialling. Telephone our grandparents stories 1930s, 1940s, 1950s.
That first telephone book, released in 1878 by the new haven district telephone company, was just one page long and held 50 names. The strowger automatic telephone exchange companys 10 digit automatic wall telephone was the first to use an automatic rotary motion dialer. Using telephones in the 1950s tailfeathers network. Antonio meucci demonstrates a communicating device to individuals in havana. American pop culture history kitty april 9, 20 at 4. They date back to 1880, the year after the public telephone service was introduced into great britain. In the 1950s the idea of living well shifted from accepting the standards to having choices. Like having a telephone in the kitchen so you could talk while you cooked, and one in the bedroom so you could chat with friends while folding laundry or making the bed. The sixties, as they are known in both scholarship and. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. We have a nice collection of river falls phone books back to 1925. In the usa, at the start of the 1960s, they were generally the desk model with a rotary dial, like this one.
Vintage 1950s pay phone payphone rotary booth antique coin bank wall mount. German fe tap 615 the evolution of telephones pictures. History of nebraska, forest county pa genealogy trails. City directories, telephone books and county directories do not circulate, but are available for use onsite.
Known more commonly now as payphones, these were a part of the telephone range from the earliest days. The phone books and yellow pages for glasgow list the names, addresses. During haymaking time on the hoover farm, collins and later klinestiver would send out a crew to harvest the hay. Below is the picture of one of the telephones in the starting years of 20th century. Its economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperitynew cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods. In the 1950s, fred klinstiver was still finding some edible ones there. Learn about telephones through our grandparents stories, a notforprofit library of memories of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. I thought it would be fun to post a few of my thoughts to share with you. In 1804, spanish polymath and scientist francisco salva campillo constructed an electrochemical telegraph. See more ideas about 1950s, the good old days, vintage memory. Did you scroll all this way to get facts about 1950s telephone.
This selfservice collection consists of yellow and white pages telephone directories for most u. These were, the book dryly indicated, the most significant developments in cord. Bell was a scot by birth, and had been born at 16 south charlotte street, edinburgh, uk on 3rd march 1847. Ned small, warren kib daum, and harry luck went to. History of the telephone 19501960 timeline created by lagoongirl2003. The kansas historical society research collections contain both published city directories and telephone books for the state of kansas.
And this 50s style phone was the inspiration for the black crosley 50s payphone. Norman rockwells the party wire 1919 imagine picking up your phone to call a friend and you hear the voice someone else on the line. The san francisco public librarys telephone and online chat reference services will be closed on monday. The chicago history museum says in the webpage that they have a 1950 crisscross directory. The term 1960s also refers to an era more often called the sixties, denoting the complex of interrelated cultural and political trends around the globe. Western electric was the first company to join in a japanese joint venture with foreign capital. From basic to ornate styles since the invention of the telephone, a wide array of phone designs have been in common use. This wall phone is perfect for your man cave, gameroom, garage, or retro style kitchen. The very familiar 3slot style pay phone was first introduced in the 1950s and remained virtually unchanged until 1965. The first telephone book was released soon after the worlds first telephone line was invented.
Legend has it that almon brown strowger was a mortician that believed his local operator was directing all business calls to his competitor, who happened. It also has a slight resemblance with a human face, that too, a funny one. Kansas telephone and city directories kansas historical society. The phone company in most cities publishes a directory of everyone in that area who has a listed phone number. The pace of living quickened, and mores became less restrained, while fortunes were rapidly accumulated on the skyrocketing stock market, in real estate speculation, and elsewhere.
Sewing machine automatic answering service mirrophone wire ribbon recorderplayer telephones picturephone bell chime. City directories on microfilm or microfiche and selected telephone books and county directories on microfilm are filed in cabinets in the 7th floor microforms area. Theyve actually written the books on antique phone collecting, pay phone collecting. In that time it held patents over many of the major developments in telephony. The journal of the telephone history institute, issue 2, spring 1995 eth events in telecommunication history. Myers myer, ralph o, 1995, old time telephones technology, restoration and repair, tab books, new york. Alexander graham bell 18471922 of salem, massachusetts, usa constructed his first experimental telephone in boston. One day bell dicided that people should be able to call family or friends that lived in a different country. This appropriately christened prepaystyle pay station will take you back to the days of old fashioned phone booths and 10cent phone calls. Local history and genealogy reading rooms collections with books library of congress catalog. The stock market crash of 1929 and the severe economic depression that followed naturally affected the publishing industry and the careers of illustrators. That meant that when you had phone service, there were at least 3 other families who shared the line, sometimes up to 5. Alabama white pages yellow pages birmingham september 1950. The first working telegraph was built by the english inventor francis ronalds in 1816 and used static electricity.