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Title: [Early telephone installation, Sierra Madre]
Creator: Schwichtenberg, H. E
Date Created and/or Issued: [1905 or 1906]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2009-0066.
Shows dirt road, home and outlying buildings in background. Parked at edge of road is wagon identified as belonging to Telephone Company. Seven men standing around, additional horse drawn wagon to the right. Both wagons loaded with equipment. Handwritten on verso - "Home phones, Sierra Madre, 1905-1906, 10 phones at this time, Lucky Baldwin had his own line, Stella Franks' first husband, Albert Schmuck".
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on card mount ; image 6 x 8 1/8 in. on mount 9 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001392304CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-5646
Language: English
Subject: Telephone companies--California--Sierra Madre
Carts & wagons--California--Sierra Madre
Sierra Madre (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
Sierra Madre
Sierra Madre (Calif.)

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