The albums on this page contains photos of the museum that was lost in the September 2015 Butte forest fire.
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10-button Touch-Tone Sets
These sets are all dated from 1964 to 1967.
1554s – So where do we find an Ivory one???
VERY rare. Call director on the right has a built in speakerphone.
Panel Phone
From England, the Netherlands, and Australia
1564s
Duplicate and available for trade or?
AE Starlite
Would trade one of our AE Starlites for something…
The blue and gold princess phones are factory custom painted.
The blue set on the right is an ITT, not Weco. Didn’t know ITT made a 10 button TT set until we found that one at a Gary Goff show.
This was really hard to find!
Card dialers. We have a duplicate green available for trade.
1002 Handsets
Receiver markings
Transmitter markings
1923 Ford Model-T Telephone Truck
Special Delivery
Simple Startup Instructions
Time to Come Out
Off the Truck She Comes
How did you say you start this thing?
Nice User-interface
Ready for Action
How many Phone Museum people does it take to start a Model T?
Model T = Model Tow
Or, we could try pushing it
Home At Last
1950s
Yellow – 1957 White – 1957
Blue/Yellow – 1957 Ivory – 1956
Dark Gray – 1956 Dark Beige – 1957
Dark Blue – 1955 Pink – 1958
Aqua Blue – 1960 Brown – 1955 We would like an earlier aqua blue set.
Red – 1955 Light Gray – 1957
Very odd… looks put together. But all the plastic parts, blue and yellow alike, have the same date.
AE Colored Sets 1930s and 1940s
Jade and the elusive Orchid
AE40 Maroon and Chrome – Kotke
Movable carry handle – down position in Gold
Movalbe carry handle – up position
Movable carry handle – Silver
movable carry handle with hand
Movable carry handle parts
Metal blocks with holes for movable handle. Screws go thru switchhook assembly inside and into these blocks.
Movable handle parts and screws
Movable handle. Just squeeze the sides and it pops right out. Probably too easily.
Inside switchhook assembly. Screw shown for reference. Note screw holes in bottom center of pic that go up to the metal blocks.
No Handle version AE40.
Stationary handle – Silver trim, cleaning finger wheel
Stationary handle – Silver trim, cleaning finger wheel
Stationary handle. Very rigid.
Clear 34 and 40, smokey 40 by Ray Kotke
Black
A G Bell 1870s Repros
Annex
Black Phones
Candlestick Telephones
Carddialers
bottom of Rotary and Touch-Tone card dialer
Carterfone
This device was an interface between a telephone and a radio. A phone converstaion could be transmitted and received via radio.
Colored Sets from the 1930s and 1940s
See the AE album for closer pics of these beautiful AE 34s and 40s.
Ray Kotke’s outstanding work.
This is painted over metal. We need a blue 302 and would trade well for one.
Green and blue dial blanks for 302s. The green is a duplicate and available for trade.
Foreign Phones
Isn’t the lime green GPO on the right a beautiful phone?
G12 Handsets and Trimline Cords
The handset say G3. We guess this is a prototype of what would become the G12
TT Trimline
TT Trimline
Rotary Trimline
Rotary Trimline
G12 handset – Green
G12 handset – Green
Rotary Trimline. Note the plastic retainer tab. The later version had a metal tab.
Rotary Trimline – early cord.
G12 handset – Pink
G12 handset – Pink
G12 handset – Yellow
G12 handset – Yellow
Rotary trimline
Rotary trimline
Intercoms
Original designations give an old intercom a sense of history. Check these out.
More designations
In the Media
JKL Museum of Telephony
3640
AGB Early Telephones
AUTOVON Telephones
AUTOVON Carddialer
Colored European Phones
Switch room
Carterfone Plaque
JKL Museum Logo
Library
Mushroom Telephones
Early Gray Payphone / Coin Collector
Payphones
Telephone Signs Outside the Museum
10-button Touch-Tone Telephones
Candlestick Telephones
Pink Carddialer
Colored Telephones
Early 500s
Green Telephones
Overview
1960s Concepts / Display Models
Early wood telephones
Library
Lots of Color
Airplane flight phone – “Please bring your seatbacks and traytalbles…..”
Attention Walgreen shoppers…
Lyons Blast Detector
Lyons Construction Photos
03-27-68-entrance-structure
03-27-68-ne-cable-entrance-conduits
03-27-68-north-e-wave-guide-entrance
03-29-68-api-casings-headwall
04-5-68-north-east-wall
04-10-68-electrical-conduit
04-10-68-fuel-tanks-shelter
04-12-68-wetting-down-roof-backfill
04-20-67-view-of-the-job-site
04-21-67-5-00-pm
04-27-67
05-1-67-ne-corner-showing-forms
05-5-67-ne-corner-formwork
05-9-67-concrete-in-ne-corner-walls
05-20-67-formwork-interior-wall
05-26-67-partially-formed-lower-wall
06-2-67-stockpile-decking-material
06-8-67-b
06-8-67-e
06-30-67-concrete-conveyer
06-30-67-reinforcing-steel-column
07-28-67-nw-corner-upper-level-wall
08-3-67-ne-corner
08-3-67-ne-corner_upload2
08-6-67-placing-conduit-in-area-of-ac-1
08-6-67-placing-conduit-in-area-of-ac-1_upload2
08-18-67-drain-piping-underlfoor-duct
09-8-67-ne-corner-showing-backfill
09-8-67-south-along-west-wall-backfill
09-22-67-shoring-for-roof
09-22-67-steel-at-stair-1-equip-shaft
10-4-67-view-from-nw-corner-looking-east_upload4
11-10-67-freshly-placed-concrete
l4-coax
lyons-att-1975
Main Room
Military / AUTOVON
AUTOVON Telephones
AUTOVON Telephones
Autovon Call Director. We’d like to find one more of these.
Autovon Card Dialer… not ours. We want to add one of these to the collection. Do you know where we can get one?
Autovon Princess (3704)
Autovon Princess
Autovon Call Director and Autovon Princess. Both are working.
Green is ITT, beige is Western Electric. APB wont give us his pink one.
Blue ITT in the middle
AE Autovon set on the left.
Red Autovon Payphone. We are looking for a pink one…
Red Autovon Payphone
Red Autovon Payphone
Red Autovon Payphone
Red Autovon Payphone
Red Autovon Payphone
Red Autovon Payphone
Red Autovon Payphone
Red Autovon Payphone
Mine and Ship Telephones and Fire Alarms
Museum Visitors
Ben Salem and Rod Lanthier
Kellogg Mike Neale, museum supporter and good friend!
L-R Remco Enthoven, Russ Cowell, John La Rue, Jerry Petrizze, Wayne Merit, Kellogg Mike Neale, Gary Goff
John La Rue, Paul Fassbender, Jeremy Walters
Claude Sterling visited on June 15th.
John La Rue and his toys
Darrel Sharp and friends
Gary and Barbara Goff
L-R Wayne Merit, Rob Baxter, Gary Goff, John La Rue
L-R Lorne Bonkowski (Tinker extrordinaire), John La Rue (Owner) , Wayne Merit (Curator)
L-R John La Rue, Cliff Sullivan, Steve Hilsz, Jeremy Walters
Jeremy and Tammy Walters
AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013
AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013
AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013
AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013
AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013
AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013
AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013
AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013
AG Bell Family Visit, December 7, 2013
Mushroom Telephones
The ivory in the middle has a repro mushroom cap. It will get painted to match.
Very rare early 500H model. No switch on the lower left.
Green 500U and Black 500H
Outside Museum
Outside Plant
Payphones
Picturephones at the museum
Early non production picturephone. Used at Disneyland and Expos. 1960s
Production Picturephone on the right from 1970. This service didn’t last long.
Pink
510 1962
500 c/d 1958, soft plastic
710B 1959
Trimline, rotary.
Trimline, rotary cord view
Dial blank front
Dial blank back
G6 handset
2565 painted. Looking for a real one.
Rotary card dialer 660, 1963. It’s the real deal. Not as good as an Autovon card dialer, but close.
558 1958
Eric O’Phone from Ireland
5302
2830 painted
851 6 button wall.
851 – note the trimline style cord on the G12 handset
10 button trimline
1500 1966
1500 1966 by Northern Electric
1702 Princess 1967
AE Starlite 1966
1554 1965
554 1960
6041 key
Bottom of pink mag. Likely worked with the NE 500 family of rural magneto dial sets
2500 1972
759 type speaker for a home interphone
The dial looks real… Autelco from Italy.
Miniphone, it works
Miniphone bottom
Concept phone used by AT&T at world fair’s and expo’s. The dial is real, the rest is a wood model.
Prototypes, Field Trial and odd stuff
10 button field trial dial
2554-prototype
Card dialer prototype found on Ebay, lucky to have it.
bottom of card dialer prototype
set on right is original with dial, set on left is same dial on B type desk set.
Open base… note lead to add weight
Side view of original desk set
Handset with dial and transmitter
Field trial princess on the left, production princess on the right.
Working field trial rotary dial Shmoo on the right. The others are wood concept Shmoo phones.
Left: Wood concept Middle: field trial phone Right: first production model. Weco did not produce this style phone in rotary dial.
What happened? Come to the museum, we’ll tell you the story.
The field trial became the green on the right
1901 early Ericcson telescoping handset – closed position
1901 early Ericcson telescoping handset – closed position
1901 early Ericcson telescoping handset – closed position
Tokyo Artillery Works top; Taisho 4 or Taisho Era 4 (which I am told is the year 1915) bottom
Field trial Princess
Field trial Princess bottom plate
Field trial princess, inside
prototype 2554?
prototype 2554?
Wood model Shmoo phone.
Wood model Shmoo phone. note the size difference from the one in the previous picture.
Kellogg Select-O-Phone demo unit
trimline-prototype
It is Bell Syst. handset, note the side connection
What was the application for this? What was it called?
Select-O-Phone by Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company
select-o-phone
Kellogg Mike did a major cleaning job.
Working SOP salesman’s sample. This folds up into a box and is portable… heavy, but portable.
sop-set-1
sop-set-2
sop-set-3
Custom dial for a SOP home intercom.
Working SOP switch. Once we figured out that it took 30v rather than 24v, the rest was easy.
Close up of the selectors. In our opinion, very difficult to maintain.
Speaker Phones
511 Home Interphone and speakers
Speakerphone prototype (we think…)
3A Speakerphone
AE 880
Ericsson Speakerphone
1A Speakerphone
Ericsson Speakerphone
Stromberg Carlson
Switchboards
Western Electric
Western Electric
I dunno…. it’s going to take some research. It is quite small.
Western Electric long distance board
DeVeau drop board
BandR so sez the plate at the bottom.
Transmitter back cup says Stromberg Carlson. It probably is an intercom but it looks like a switchboard.
Switch Hooks
Rawson Orator, transmitter in the ‘off hook’ position
Viaduct Paddle Phones
Manhatten with a manual lever to operate the hook.
National Telephone Mfg., the hook is under the watch case rcvr
National Telephone Mfg., note the button where the rcvr goes
Viaduct with finger operated hook
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Switch Room
TCI ATCA Leg Pulling
Small Emergency Prototype
Theater Lobby
Touch-a-Matic Prototype
Yellow is a production model.
Yellow is a production model.
Trimline Field Trial 1963
WE Co. Green
10 button TT sets
WE Co. 851 Field Trial
Wood Telephones
