The albums on this page contains photos of the museum that was lost in the September 2015 Butte forest fire.
Click on one of the thumbnails below to view the images in a gallery.
Click here for photos of the new JKL Museum in the Santa Cruz CA area.
Museum Areas
Telephones
Prototype and Field Trail
Prototypes, Field Trial and odd stuff
10 button field trial dial
2554-prototype
Card dialer prototype found on Ebay, lucky to have it.
bottom of card dialer prototype
set on right is original with dial, set on left is same dial on B type desk set.
Open base... note lead to add weight
Side view of original desk set
Handset with dial and transmitter
Field trial princess on the left, production princess on the right.
Working field trial rotary dial Shmoo on the right. The others are wood concept Shmoo phones.
Left: Wood concept Middle: field trial phone Right: first production model. Weco did not produce this style phone in rotary dial.
What happened? Come to the museum, we'll tell you the story.
The field trial became the green on the right
1901 early Ericcson telescoping handset - closed position
1901 early Ericcson telescoping handset - closed position
1901 early Ericcson telescoping handset - closed position
Tokyo Artillery Works top; Taisho 4 or Taisho Era 4 (which I am told is the year 1915) bottom
Field trial Princess
Field trial Princess bottom plate
Field trial princess, inside
prototype 2554?
prototype 2554?
Wood model Shmoo phone.
Wood model Shmoo phone. note the size difference from the one in the previous picture.
Kellogg Select-O-Phone demo unit
trimline-prototype
It is Bell Syst. handset, note the side connection
What was the application for this? What was it called?
Telephone Switching
Vehicles
Lyons NE
Miscellaneous
