Letter from Julia Starkey to Eugene V. Debs, 10/1/1926. Writes that when she heard that Eugene V. Debs was returning to Elmhurst, Illinois that she was sad that she was no longer working the switchboard there. Expresses the hope that Eugene V. Debs...
Letter to Eugene V. Debs, 12/18/1920. Writes that she is the "girl" who handles the switchboard at the Socialist Party national headquarters. Says that Winnie Branstetter asked her to help make up a Christmas box for a little girl of a needy...
Charles Baldwin's transcribed interview of an anonymous 76 year-old male. This account states that Sheets wanted to be buried with a phone and a bottle of whiskey. The phone was to call in case he woke up, and the whiskey was so he could have a...
This is an oral history interview with Helen Dubbs and her experiences as a switchboard operator during the time Martin Sheets had his telephone hooked up in his mausoleum.
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Two black and white photocopies of pictures of Hila Champer Campbell. Hila Champer worked the telephone switchboard in Seelyville, Indiana from 1920-1930.
Black and white reproduction of a drawing diagramming a manual telephone system. The diagram was drawn By Hila Champer Campbell who operated the manual board for ten years, from 1920-1930, before the switchboard went automatic.