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Image Not Available for Telephone Exchange, Main Street and Central Row, Hartford
Telephone Exchange, Main Street and Central Row, Hartford
Image Not Available for Telephone Exchange, Main Street and Central Row, Hartford

Telephone Exchange, Main Street and Central Row, Hartford

PhotographerPhotographed by Elmer M. White American, 1858 - 1944
Date1883
MediumPhotography; albumen print on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (overall height x width): 4 3/4 x 7 1/16in. (12 x 18cm)
DescriptionThree women wearing aprons over long flounced skirts stand at a telephone switchboard that extends around two sides of a room. A speaker and a receiver are at each workstation. A gas light fixture hangs from the ceiling.
Object number2000.197.49
NotesSubject Note: In 1883, the offices of the Southern New England Telephone Company were located at 2 Central Row.
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