Search Results

Keywords: Telephone operator

Historical Items

These results include photographs, documents, letters, paintings, artifacts, and many other kinds of Maine related items from collections around the state and elsewhere.


Item 18091

Switchboard operators, Lewiston, ca. 1893

Contributed by: Telephone Museum Date: circa 1893 Location: Lewiston; Ellsworth Media: Photographic print

Item 18053

Winnie McCarthy, Lewiston, ca. 1911

Contributed by: Telephone Museum Date: circa 1911 Location: Lewiston; Ellsworth Media: Photographic print

Item 18066

Switchboard Operators

Contributed by: Telephone Museum Date: 1883 Location: Ellsworth; Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 18052

Night Operators, Lewiston

Contributed by: Telephone Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston; Ellsworth Media: Photographic print

Item 61878

Gwen May remembers working the Swan's Island telephone switchboard in the 1960s

Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Swan's Island Media: Mp3

  view a full transcription

Item 82166

Westbrook Telephone Exchange, Westbrook, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Walker Memorial Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Westbrook Media: Photographic print

Item 61877

Lillian 'Lil' Smith, telephone operator for Swan's Island, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print

Item 18051

Switchboard operators, Lewiston, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Telephone Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston; Ellsworth Media: Photographic print

Item 24017

Staff of Biddeford Telephone Exchange, ca. 1900

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 18058

Switchboard operators, 1939

Contributed by: Telephone Museum Date: 1939-04-13 Location: Lewiston; Ellsworth Media: Photographic print

Item 69481

Share Certificate, Franklin Farmers Co-Operative Tel. Co., Strong, 1912

Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: 1912-05-03 Location: Strong Media: Ink on paper

Item 5566

Telephone operations in Norway, ca. 1956

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1956 Location: Norway Media: Photographic print

Item 11210

Last telephone cordboard, Bath, 1982

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1982-03-31 Location: Bath Media: Photographic print

Item 34778

Telephone operator's building, Lincoln, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Lincoln Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Lincoln Media: Photographic print

Item 31289

Telephone Exchange burning, Bangor, 1911

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1911-04-30 Location: Bangor Media: Lantern slide

Item 27109

Telephone Switchboard, Islesboro, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Islesboro Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Islesboro Media: Wood, metal, cord

Item 9162

Maine Medical Center telephone service, Portland, 1959

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1959 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 27169

Lightning Strike, Baptist Church Steeple, Thomaston 1992

Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: 1992-06-14 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print

Item 18452

Joseph E. Robinson, Houlton, c. 1910

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 105876

Back Meadow Street, Nobleboro, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Nobleboro Media: Glass Plate Negative

Item 9077

Looking Southwesterly from Elm Street, Skowhegan, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1900 Location: Skowhegan Media: Stereograph

Item 11238

Hand-cranked phones to be replaced, Bryant Pond, 1982

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1982-06-25 Location: Bryant Pond Media: Photographic print

Item 17515

Naval Air Station Operations Office, Brunswick, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1945 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print

Item 11014

Phone company, Bryant Pond, 1981

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1981-01-28 Location: Bryant Pond Media: Photographic print