Telephone

Object/Artifact

Waseca County History Center

Name/Title

Telephone

Entry/Object ID

1.98.8

Description

Rotary "Princess" Desk Model Telephone. Material: plastic, metal. Size: 3 3/8" W. x 9" L. x 4 1/4" H. Description: blue plastic cover, rotary dial, numbers and letters printed in brown displayed under a clear plastic shield with holes for dialing; center paper display of phone number: "Area Code 507 835-7700"; blue plastic receiver contains speaker and earpiece; blue coil cord attaches phone to receiver, 87 1/2" L.; silver plastic phone jack cable projects from phone back; metal cover on bottom contains adjusting levers for volume; brown rubber surface gripper mat on bottom; engraved product information on bottom: "702B, The Princess phone, Bell System" and a green printed white sticker: "4-74".

Context

Probably donated by Carol Beetsch, receptionist/secretary at WCHS from late 1980s through the 1990s.

Cataloged By

pauline

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Telephone

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Telecommunication Devices

Nomenclature Class

Telecommunication T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Create Date

April 13, 1998

Update Date

November 21, 2024