Number Please (Telephone Switchboard) / Lumbering

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Number Please (Telephone Switchboard) / Lumbering Produced: 1920

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. “Front of switchboard showing subscribers’ multiple.” Worker’s hand plugging in lines. “The key shelf -- ‘A’ board.” Switchboard operator tilts key shelf back, showing under side. “Testing subscribers’ lines to locate trouble.” Man at switchboard. “Testing toll lines.” Men at switchboard. “Accurately locating toll line trouble with Wheatstone bridge and galvanometer.” Worker operating above device. “Repairing trouble.” Worker on cross tie of telephone pole. “A telephone must have its talking points, so here are some brand new ones.” Woman interviewing prospective employee. “But they must be perfectly fit.” Nurse weighing woman. “Instructing students after they have qualified and passed physical examination.” Classroom, students with earphones and speakers on, instructors at front of room. “Instructors in foreground, students in background. Instructors playing part of subscribers.” “Another step in training.” Student at switchboard, instructor standing behind. “It is but a step now to be in the same room with the chief operator, supervisors and operators.” Women at switchboard. “Operating room -- ‘A’ board.” Women at switchboards, supervisor behind. “Remember, there are times when you imagine the operator asleep but she is very much awake.” Operators at switchboard. “Outgoing trunks to other ‘Central offices.’” Operator’s hand plugging in calls. “Call circuit keys or order wire buttons.” “Electrical registers to count subscribers’ calls.” “This is Long Distance? Receiving details of calls which are recorded and delivered to line operators to complete to other cities.” Operator writing on pad - sorting and routing slips of paper - operators at switchboards, receive slips conveyed on overhead wire. “Toll directory.” Operator consults directory. “The calculagraph times all conversation.” Operators place slips of paper into machine. [1920] b. Man in tent, loading camera, lighting cigarette - three men get into canoe, paddle on lake - lake shore - canoe is paddled to shore, beached - men carry canoe and packs - men placing suitcases in horse-drawn buggy - muddy road, buggy is driven away - man by low waterfall - men in rowboat on river with ice in it - log jam in fast river - logs floating down rapids. “The workers in this great cathedral of nature have every opportunity to catch the true joys of life.” Man carrying canoe, others carrying gear - men gathering sticks for fire - views of mountain streams - old farmhouse and out building - farmer with calf, man approaches, pets calf - worker breaking log jam - stacks of logs - worker on wooden foot bridge hooks logs, guides them - logs floating down rapids of river - sawmill - logs floating down rapids - man examining young trees planted in rows - workers on shore, pushing logs into river - man speaks on telephone hooked up out of doors - people on wooden bridge, logs beside rushing water. [1919]

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