The 5th Berkeley Telephone Exchange

Name/Title

The 5th Berkeley Telephone Exchange

Entry/Object ID

1978.001.7259

Description

The 5th Berkeley telephone exchange, located at 2112 Bancroft Way in 1906, Standing on ground left to right: 1 - unknown, 2 - unknown, 3 - Asa Smith, 4 - unknown, 5 - G Lewis, 6 - Otto Schmidt. Standing on steps left to right: 7 - M. Florees, 8 - J. Daniels, 9 - Mrs. Doyle, 10 - Chas. Hampton (wearing mustache), 11 - Miss Allen, 12 - Unknown (in back of Hampton), 13 - Jack Etta, 14 - Miss Adams. Driver in wagon - E. Leffler, H. Peterson also on wagon seat, B. Heime sitting on ladder.

Made/Created

Artist

George Shimmon

Date made

1906

Place

* Untyped Place

Bancroft Way

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

"Building"

Search Terms

"Telephone Exchange"

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

213-190-7259

Dimensions

Height

8 in

Width

10 in

Location

Other

Photograph collection

Provenance

Notes

Telephone Museum Collection, San Francisco