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Viaduct Wall Switchboard Phone
San Francisco Potbelly Candlestick
1897
Stromberg-Carlson McKinley
About This Phone
When President McKinley was shot on September 6, 1901, a Stromberg-Carlson telephone like this one was presumably used to call an ambulance. Made of oak, with a cast iron triplet and a porcelain mouthpiece.
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