Main Street, Cheney, WA, 1898

ID: 4862 ~ Source: Image L99-22.116 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture. ~ Creator: Thomas Elsom ~ Date: 1898
This file appears in: Cheney's Telephone Switchboard
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A photograph taken by Thomas Elsom of downtown Cheney, featuring newly installed telephone lines.

This file appears in: Cheney's Telephone Switchboard

By Alexandria Fricks
Between 1876 and 1915, Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone lines went from reaching just 100 feet, to over 3,400 miles. The first call between Bell and Watson merely spanned adjacent rooms; while their call in 1915 spanned New York to San Francisco.…