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c247pv44k
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Western Electric hanging handset telephone
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c247pv44k
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title
Western Electric hanging handset telephone
description
Title from accompanying material.
date
["[ca. 1842–2021]"]
year
1842
rights
The Lewis H. Latimer Society, Inc. owns outright all of the materials in these collections.
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This work is in the public domain under a Creative Commons No Rights Reserved License (CC0).
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no restrictions
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1_1_7
institution
Lewis H. Latimer Society & Museum
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Lewis H. Latimer Society Chelsea
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Communication
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Objects
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Telephones
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1 item
notes
Title from accompanying material.
Western Electric Rotary Telephone Wall Counter Mount Hanging Handset Bell System. / This is a compact version, sometimes referred to as a “Space Saver” telephone, due to its small size it could easily be set up in one’s kitchen, workshop, or diner, where they were all common, since the hanging bracket on back can be configured however is best to mount it to either the wall, a counter, from a post, etc.
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