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Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives.
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Digital object 0259 img0076
Connie Cramer (Santa Monica Toastmistress Club)
Santa Monica the Way It Was, a slide presentation commemorating the City's Centennial Anniversary, 1975.
The phone on the desk is one of the first dial telephones introduced in Los Angeles County by Home Telephone Company, ca. 1914-1915
The phone on the wall is the crank type and used by operators(either Sunset or Pacific Telephone, ca. 1906)
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