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"Lewisburg Telephone Force" includes woman telephone operator, wearing a head set while sitting at the switchboard and two other unidentified persons. Note the column of "ringers" or bells attached to the middle window frame.

1. First Telephone Staff, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, W. Va.

IDNO:
007284
Title:
First Telephone Staff, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1890
Description:
"Lewisburg Telephone Force" includes woman telephone operator, wearing a head set while sitting at the switchboard and two other unidentified persons. Note the column of "ringers" or bells attached to the middle window frame.
Three unidentified men seated on a velocipede at the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Depot and Telegraph Office in Prince, West Virginia. "J. S. Sampson Collection"

2. Three on Railway Velocipede, Prince Depot, Fayette County, W. Va.

IDNO:
039065
Title:
Three on Railway Velocipede, Prince Depot, Fayette County, W. Va.
Description:
Three unidentified men seated on a velocipede at the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) Depot and Telegraph Office in Prince, West Virginia. "J. S. Sampson Collection"
Harry Simpson is seated at the desk with the telegraph transmitter and two unidentified men are sitting behind him. The telegraph office was located at the Chesapeake and Ohio Depot in Prince, Fayette County, West Virginia.

3. Operator Harry Simpson in Telegraph Office at Prince, W. Va.

IDNO:
039066
Title:
Operator Harry Simpson in Telegraph Office at Prince, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1915
Description:
Harry Simpson is seated at the desk with the telegraph transmitter and two unidentified men are sitting behind him. The telegraph office was located at the Chesapeake and Ohio Depot in Prince, Fayette County, West Virginia.
The levers in the tower were part of the telegraph operations at the Chesapeake and Ohio Depot in Prince, Fayette County, West Virginia.

4. Levers in Old Tower at Prince, W. Va.

IDNO:
039068
Title:
Levers in Old Tower at Prince, W. Va.
Description:
The levers in the tower were part of the telegraph operations at the Chesapeake and Ohio Depot in Prince, Fayette County, West Virginia.
Group portrait of operators in front of a C&O Railway schedule board. L to R; David W. Morgan, Valmer A. Meadow, J. B. Thomas, Todie B. Green. Other information the back of the photograph includes: "from Roy Long Coll 1998"

5. Telegraph Operators, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Prince, W. Va.

IDNO:
039069
Title:
Telegraph Operators, Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Prince, W. Va.
Date:
1915
Description:
Group portrait of operators in front of a C&O Railway schedule board. L to R; David W. Morgan, Valmer A. Meadow, J. B. Thomas, Todie B. Green. Other information the back of the photograph includes: "from Roy Long Coll 1998"
Group portrait of eight men and one boy at the telegraph office in Charleston. Identified left to right: Day, Rose, Selbe, Scholl, Williams, Crider, Williamson, Ragsdale, and O'Brien in the window, far right.

6. Western Union Telegraph Company, Charleston, Kanawha County, W. Va.

IDNO:
039088
Title:
Western Union Telegraph Company, Charleston, Kanawha County, W. Va.
Date:
1895/01
Description:
Group portrait of eight men and one boy at the telegraph office in Charleston. Identified left to right: Day, Rose, Selbe, Scholl, Williams, Crider, Williamson, Ragsdale, and O'Brien in the window, far right.