Virtual Exhibit
Happy Birthday, Trimline!
Happy Birthday, Trimline! ??? Guess you just missed it too? According to Events in Telephone History by AT&T, August 2 1965, was when “Michigan Bell became the first company to sell Trimline phones on a companywide basis.”
Interested in reading more about the Trimline? Check out the upcoming August 2015 issue of the Telephone Collectors International publication Singing Wires Journal. It contains an article “From Butt Set to Beauty” The Trimline is 50 Years Old by Paul Fassbender.
The JKL Museum of Telephony collection contains many antique telephones and a few not so antique. There are several telephones in the JKL Museum collection that are related to the Trimline development.
You can check them out on our site in the virtual exhibit “Pre—production models, prototype, display telephones, and related objects.”
Look for the Demitasse, Schmoo, Contour, Trimline I, a golden Trimline and others.
You are also welcome to come and see them for yourselves at our telephone museum. Check out our homepage or use the contact option in the menu bar to get in touch.
Also don’t forget to check out the Trimline page at Paul Fassbender’s site
Virtual Exhibits created with PastPerfect Museum Software
Up till now we’ve added the following so-called Virtual Exhibits created with PastPerfect Museum Software to our telephone museum’s website:
- Early Telephone Apparatus
- AUTOVON: Telephones and equipment
- Batteries: Various types of batteries and battery containers as used by the Bell System and others
- Pre—production models, prototype, display telephones, and related objects
The Virtual Exhibits show various objects that are on display at the JKL Museum.
We plan to add more Virtual Exhibits to our website in the near future.
JKL Museum cataloging project started
JKL Museum cataloging project started
The JKL Museum has started a cataloging project using PastPerfect 5.0 Museum Software. All the telephone museum’s objects, photos, archives, and books will be added to a museum database.
It will take “some” time until everything has been described and photographed but it will be worth it.
One of the many benefits is the posibility to share the telephone museum objects online in so-called virtual exhibits.