Keywords: Telephone companies
Item 18050
Telephone Central Office Building, Lewiston, 1903
Contributed by: Telephone Museum Date: 1903 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Item 18091
Switchboard operators, Lewiston, ca. 1893
Contributed by: Telephone Museum Date: circa 1893 Location: Lewiston; Ellsworth Media: Photographic print
Item 54058
41-47 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: New England Telephone Company Use: Office & Telephone Exchange
Item 54059
Assessor's Record, 41-47 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: New England Telephone Company Use: Office & Telephone Exchange
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The small town of Andover landed on the international map in 1962 when the Earth Station that had been built there successfully communicated with Telstar, the first telecommunications satellite.
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Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones
"In February of that year the telephone company made Lincoln the toll center for this division. This division included the towns of Olamon, which only…"
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Working as a telephone operator in the 1940s
by Doris Tardy
Working as a telephone operator in 1946 was new and exciting, and challenging.
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Rachel Tourigny: Richness of growing up in a big, "poor" family
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A most vivid and heartwarming account of life during a simpler time
