Kellogg Wall Magneto Switchboard
KelloggKelloggThe Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company was an American manufacturer of telecommunication equipment. Anticipating the expiration of the earliest, fundamental Bell System patents, Milo G. Kellogg, an electrical engineer, founded the company in 1897 in Chicago to produce telephone exchange equipment and telephone apparatus.Read more on Wikipedia → · switchboard, American
About This Phone
This is a 1930s-vintage Kellogg 'Masterbuilt' Wall-Type Magnetic Switchboard that probably served a small rural community with its 20 lines (although it could serve more than 20 households via party lines). Thanks to Roger Conklin, Odis Levrier and Steph Kerman for telling me everything I know about this. This switchboard has a hanging 'bulldog' transmitter (it may originally have had an older-style, 'solid-back' transmitter) and operators headset. The Kellogg catalog at left shows a switchboard, the Type 30, very similar to mine except with a handset instead of the hanging transmitter and headset.
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