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1878-1983 (Creation)
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Deries consists of photographs created and collected by the Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company Limited. Photographs from the Nova Scotia Telegraph Company, Island Telephone Company and local exchanges across Nova Scotia are also included. Photographs cover the history of Maritime telephone companies predominantly Maritime Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Photographs consist of company employees, telephone switchboards and equipment, operators at switchboards, company sports teams, company events and picnics, line crews repairing and building lines, microwave equipment and antennas, scenery of Halifax, Dartmouth and many smaller towns across Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, company crew aiding in the rescue efforts at Moose River Gold Mines, the Sydney-Louisbourg Railway, the Telephone Association of Canada and the Telephone Pioneers Association members.
The first subseries includes subject and individual index cards for the photograph collection. Additional subseries include: Alexander Graham Bell ; Buildings ; Company Presidents, Vice-Presidents and Board of Directors ; Conventions, Company Events and Holidays ; Courses and Training ; Dial Conversion, Cutover and Extended Service ; Equipment and Vehicles ; Fundraising ; Glass Plate Negatives ; Island Telephone Company ; Landscape and Street Scenes ; Local Railways ; Marketing ; Non Company Events ; Operation and Line Crews ; Other People ; Slides ; Sports Events and Teams ; Staff ; Telephone Association of Canada ; and Telephone Pioneers Association.
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- English