C.J. HIBBARD:

An Inventory of His Photographs at the Minnesota Historical Society

Sound and Visual Collection

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Hibbard, C. J.
	Title:	Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.
	Dates:	1919-1928.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Views of the company's buildings, equipment and employees. Includes line and telephone pole installation, switchboards, offices, vehicles and garages, and employee facilities, including cafeteria and restrooms. Also views of instruction classes for employees, including first aid and an exercise session. All views are in Minneapolis, except for building views in St. Cloud, Fergus Falls, Wadena, and Wayzata.
	Quantity:	112 photographs: black and white; 8 x 10 inches and 114 photographs: negative, black and white; 8 x 10 inches and smaller.
	Location:	I.131: See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Hibbard, C. J. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: AV1979.73

Processing Information:

Processed by: Nancy Erickson, September 1994.

Catalog ID number: 990016796370104294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION


Location	Negative
I.131.1	NP 25731	Unprotected toll terminals on telephone pole, 1919. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.2	NP 25730	Unprotected toll terminals on telephone pole, 1919. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.3	NP 25715	Aerial cable splice on telephone line at Fifty Sixth and Nicollet, Minneapolis, 1919. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.4	5745-B	Telephone company vehicles in a garage, Minneapolis, 1919. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.5	NP 31611	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company building, 420 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.6	NP 32312	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company lobby, 420 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.7	5406-B	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company building, St. Cloud., 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.8	NP 29726	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company cable splicing school, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.9	NP 29724	Northwestern Bell Telephone exchange, address unknown, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.10	5391-B	Wayzata Exchange building, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.11	5389-B	Orchard Exchange building, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.12	NP 29717	Female employees (information operators) posed on roof of building, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.13	NP 32315	Engineers' office, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.14	NP 32358	Stenographers in Publicity Department, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.15	NP 32317	Information operators, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.16	NP 32314	Two wire chiefs, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.17	NP 28462	Chief operators, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, April 16, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.18	5570-B	Chief operators, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, February 19, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.19	5542-B	Switchboard operators working in large room, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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Location	Negative
I.131.20	5543-B	Atlantic 'A' and 'B' board, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.21	5762-B	Fergus Falls #8 switchboard, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, approximately 1910. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.22	5737-B	Kenwood Exchange, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, March 24, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.23	5563-B	Wadena switchboard, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, approximately 1910. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.24	5551-B	Number one board at Hyland, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.25	5360-B	Walnut 'A' and 'B' board, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.26	5550-B	'A' and 'B' board at the Dinsmore Exchange, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches and 2 photographs: negative, black and white; 8 x 10 inches and 4 x 5 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.27	NP 30446	Woman at switchboard, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.28	NP 30445	Woman at switchboard, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.29	NP 29250	Switchboard operators, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, May 17, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.30	NP 28568	Woman at switchboard, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.31	NP 28567	Call indication position on Kenwood 'B' Board, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, April 22, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.32	5351-B	Operators on south 'B' Board, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.33	5364-B	Minneapolis toll board line positions, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, February 14, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.34	5363-B	Main annex 'A' board, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.35	5362-B	Atlantic 'A' position, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.36	5361-B	End of main 'A' board, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.37	5359-B	End of Atlantic 'A' board, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.38	5357-B	Operator on the Kenwood 'A' position, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.39	5355-B	South 'A' board, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.40	5354-B	Drexel 'A' and 'B' board, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.41	5353-B	Colfax 'A' and 'B' board, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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Location	Negative
I.131.42	5352-B	Kenwood 'A' board, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.43	NP 30104	Men attending cable instruction class, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.44	5384-B	Men working on telephone lines in residential area, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.45	6340-B	Telephone poles manufactured by Valentine-Clark Company erected along Lake Street at Thirty Seventh Avenue, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.46	6344-B	Telephone poles manufactured by Valentine-Clark Company erected along Forty First Avenue and Lake Street, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.47	6346-B	Telephone poles manufactured by Valentine-Clark Company erected along Lake Street at Forty Fourth Avenue, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.48	5548-B	Cable splicing school, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, February 9, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.49	5600-B	Work crew removing brick paving on street to lay telephone line, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.50	5744-B	Northwestern Telephone Company vehicles in garage, Minneapolis, December 29, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.51	6319-B	Cafeteria kitchen, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.52	6320-B	Cafeteria kitchen, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.53	NP 32352	Women preparing a meal in the cafeteria kitchen, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.54	6315-B	Employees at cafeteria counter, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.55	6318-B	Employees eating in cafeteria, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.56	5553-B	Lunch room at Main and Atlantic, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.57	NP 32353	Cafeteria, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.58	NP 32351	Employee lounge, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.59	6313-B	Employee lounge, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.60	6314-B	Female employees sewing in employee lounge, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.61	6316-B	Women's lounge with desk, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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Location	Negative
I.131.62	5358-B	Kenwood Exchange cafe and lounge, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, February 14, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.63	5356-B	South Exchange lounge, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.64	5544-B	Coat check room at main central office, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.65	5554-B	Nurse examining female employees, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1920. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.66	NP 37864	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company truck, 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.67	NP 37863	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company truck, 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.68	5506-B	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company truck hoisting telephone pole in to place, 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.69	NP 37865	Work crew and Northwestern Bell Telephone Company truck used in installing telephone poles, December 21, 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.70	NP 37858	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company work crew hoisting telephone pole in to hole, 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.71	NP 33725	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company crew and pole hoisting truck, 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.72	NP 33724	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company crew and pole hoisting truck, February 19, 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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Location	Negative
I.131.73	5990-B	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company cable work, University and Fourteenth, Minneapolis; house being moved on University., approximately 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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Location	Negative
I.131.74	5988-B	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company cable work; view down Fourteenth Street from University, Minneapolis, approximately 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.75	5989-B	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company cable work, University and Fourteenth, Minneapolis; house being moved on University Avenue., approximately 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.76	NP 37441	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company car in an accident near the Alameda Apartments on Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis, 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.77	5430-B	First aid class at Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.78	NP 34390	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company office workers exercising, 1921. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.79	NP 38444	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company office, Third Avenue and Fifth Street, Minneapolis, 1922. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.80	NP 38364	Colfax exchange, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1922. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.81	NP 38363	Geneva Exchange, 607 Third Avenue South, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1922. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.82	NP 38362	Dykwater Exchange, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1922. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.83	NP 38309	Men working outside, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, 607 Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, 1922. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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Location	Negative
I.131.84	NP 38081	Woman demonstrating a model switchboard, 1922. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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I.131.85	4512-B	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, demonstration of pole wiring, approximately 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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Location	Negative
I.131.86	5888-B	Radio station WLAG in the Oak Grove Hotel, Minneapolis, March 29, 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.87	NP 48874	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company work crew picking up poles at pole yard at Twenty Fourth and Hiawatha, Minneapolis, 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.88	NP 48873	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company work crew picking up poles at pole yard at Twenty Fourth and Hiawatha, Minneapolis, 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.89	NP 49112	Telephone lines, looking south from East Forty Second Street between Longfellow and Nineteenth Avenue South, Minneapolis, 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.90	NP 49109	Telephone lines, looking north from East Forty Second Street between Nokomis and Thirty First Avenue South, Minneapolis, 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.91	NP 49108	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company lines looking north from East Thirty Ninth Street between Twenty Second and Twenty Third Avenue South, Minneapolis, 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.92	5341-B	Repairing a line, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company employees with service truck, Minneapolis, 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.93	NP 49631	Mechanics working on truck at Northwestern Bell Telephone Company garage, Minneapolis, 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.94	NP 49590	Mechanics working on a car at Northwestern Bell Telephone Company garage, Minneapolis, 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.95	NP 49132	Mechanic working on a car at Northwestern Bell Telephone Company's new garage on Laurel Avenue in St. Paul, 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.96	6202-B	Man talking on loud speaker at Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, approximately 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.97	5788-B	First Aid demonstration, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, 1923. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.98	5266-B	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company truck, 1924. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.99	3823-B	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company truck, 1924. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.100	5488-B	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company truck improperly loaded, 1924. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
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Location	Negative
I.131.101	5264-B	Employees in a training session, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, approximately 1924. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.102	NP 65301	Service truck, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, October 22, 1926. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.103	NP 64048	Colfax and Laurel Avenue North truck, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, June 5, 1926. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.104	NP 62515	Women in swimming pool, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, March 18, 1925. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.105	NP 66964	Post hole digger, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, April 20, 1927. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


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I.131.106	NP 66963	Post hole digger, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, April 1927. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.107	NP 72165	Woman with telephone directory seated by telephone in a kitchen, September 13, 1928. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.108	NP 71937	Interior of central office, Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, August 22, 1928. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.109	NP 71769	Telephone in a railroad? coach car, July 25, 1928. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.110	NP 71768	Man at phone in railroad? coach car, July 25, 1928. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.111	NP 71667	Dialing demonstration at Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, Minneapolis, July 16, 1928. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches
			Digital image


Location	Negative
I.131.112	3963-B	Northwestern Bell Telephone Company dialing demonstration, 1928. 1 photograph: black and white; 8 x 10 inches and 2 photographs: negative, black and white; 8 x 10 inches and 4 x 5 inches
			Digital image

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: Telephone companies -- Employees -- Photographs.; Telephone companies -- Minnesota -- Photographs.; Telephone companies -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Photographs.; Telephone lines -- Design and construction -- Photographs.; Telephone operators -- Minnesota -- Photographs.; Telephone switchboards -- Photographs.

Organizations:: Northwestern Bell Telephone Company -- Photographs.

Document Types:: Photographs.

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C.J. HIBBARD:

OVERVIEW

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

CATALOG HEADINGS