JKL Museum of Telephony News and Updates

JKL Museum Homepage

Today, December 19, 2017 we updated the homepage of the JKL Museum of Telephony website.

http://www.jklmuseum.com

We hope you will enjoy the new photos of our telephone museum.

The photo gallery below shows some of our previous progress.

The entry hall with an antique oak double wall telephone booth.
Overview of the main room with aluminum display case frameworks waiting for oak trim.
Our first wood telephones have been mounted on the wall.
The new library, awaiting extra bookshelves.
The new switchroom; Stromberg-Carlson X-Y on the left and Western Electric Step-by-Step on the right.
Telephones ready for display in the museum.

JKL Museum homepage update

Today, June 2, 2017 we updated the homepage of the JKL Museum of Telephony website.

http://www.jklmuseum.com

We hope you will enjoy the new photos.

Jane has arrived

Jane has arrived; the Audichron speaking clock complete with Jane Barbe’s voice, has been safely delivered and set up as of 7/17/2016.

The short clip below shows “Jane” at a temporary location. Jane’s phone number will be published at a later date.

Photo Exhibit [2] – additional photos available

Photo Exhibit [2]: One Bell System. It works. “One hundred Years of Telephony in America” 1876 – 1976.

We added 19 additional photos which we acquired recently. We hope you will enjoy these extra photos. There are now 100 photos in total.

Photo Exhibit: One Bell System. It works. “One hundred Years of Telephony in America” 1876 – 1976

Photo Exhibit: One Bell System. It works. “One hundred Years of Telephony in America” 1876 – 1976.

We recently acquired a set of 81 AT&T Photo Center photos. We hope you will enjoy this Photo Exhibit

Picturephone Model II Demo Video

We had a working demonstration of two Picturephone Model II at the Southern California Telephone Collectors Show on Saturday, March 19, 2016.

The video shows two working examples of the Model II Picturephones. They were setup to show the picture they took on their own screen. In the future we hope to be able to connect them together and maybe even make an actual video call. We are very pleased that Chris Brawner got these working after so many years.

We apologize for the first few minutes of the video not being in focus but hope that you will enjoy this little video.

Photo source:
http://long-lines.net/tech-equip/Picturephone/BLR0569/picturephone.pdf
PDF of the May 1969 Bell Labs Record about the Western Electric PicturePhone Model II

Telephone service in color

A Kansas Southwestern Bell door tag that would be left by the telephone serviceman reads “When I return I shall be pleased to discuss adequate telephone service in color with you. How does one discuss telephone service in color? Apparently they know how to do that in Kansas.

Bell System Series 200 Dial Communications Service

Recently we acquired this folder about the Bell System Series 200 Dial Communications Service.

It appears to be dated May 1965.

Picturephone Model II Demo

We plan to have a working demonstration of a Picturephone Model II at the Southern California Telephone Collectors Show on Saturday, March 19.

Photo source:
http://long-lines.net/tech-equip/Picturephone/BLR0569/picturephone.pdf
PDF of the May 1969 Bell Labs Record about the Western Electric PicturePhone Model II

See you at the Southern California Telephone Collectors Show.

Click here for the Southern California Telephone Collectors Show info.

Click here for the show blog. There will be photos posted to the blog on the day of the show.

Museum Cleanup Started

Almost six months after the Butte Forest fire the museum cleanup started last Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Below are several photos that show the progress made until last Friday.