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Western Electric "Princess" Phone

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. As telephones became mainstream ...
Wired

1949: Western Electric 500 Telephone

Once upon a time, whenever someone referred to "the telephone," they meant the Western Electric 500. Debuting in 1949, this simple, sturdy rotary-dial desktop phone became the iconic image for all ...
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Western Electric type 100 desk telephone

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Throughout much of the 20th Century, ...
Morning Call PA

As Bell Labs marks a century, look back at a former Lehigh Valley partner Western Electric

As the iconic Bell Labs marks 100 years in 2025 as a research arm of former communications giants AT&T and Bell Telephone System, it has a historic, corporate tie-in to the Lehigh Valley: Allentown’s ...
Ars Technica

western electric phone no dial tone

In a recent excavation of my mother's walk-in closet, I discovered our old Western Electric telephone. I believe it is a Design Line-->Celebrity-->model 2940 telephone. Overall, it's in good working ...
The Baltimore Sun

Gracie Mae Haga, a retired telephone components assembler and avid boater, dies

Gracie Mae Haga, a retired Western Electric telephone components assembler who grew up on a Virginia farm, died of COPD and old age complications April 12 at SpiriTrust Lutheran, the Village at ...