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'New look' in phones -- shades of the '20s, Yielding to customer demand, Bell Canada has decided to introduce antique-style telephones similar to thos(...)
'New look' in phones -- shades of the '20s, Yielding to customer demand, Bell Canada has decided to introduce antique-style telephones similar to thos(...)

'New look' in phones -- shades of the '20s, Yielding to customer demand, Bell Canada has decided to introduce antique-style telephones similar to thos(...)

Date5/13/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: 'New look' in phones -- shades of the '20s; Yielding to customer demand; Bell Canada has decided to introduce antique-style telephones similar to those fancy French cradle phones popular in the 1920s.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0017913F
      Free phones: Mary Clair Harrold of Laird Drive uses one of the emergency telephones set up in a Bell Telephone truck on a parking lot at Eglinton and Bayview Aves
      Free phones: Mary Clair Harrold of Laird Drive uses one of the emergency telephones set up in a Bell Telephone truck on a parking lot at Eglinton and Bayview Aves
      Faught, Ken
      12/10/1985
      All Kinds of telephones, from ultra-modern to the old and elegant styles, can be used in an area of Scarborough where Bell Canada has installed phone (...)
      All Kinds of telephones, from ultra-modern to the old and elegant styles, can be used in an area of Scarborough where Bell Canada has installed phone (...)
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      1/6/1976
      Real cool shades. These unique sun shades on the new Ontario Telephone Employees Credit Union building at Wilson and Wilson Rd. are a first for Toront(...)
      Real cool shades. These unique sun shades on the new Ontario Telephone Employees Credit Union building at Wilson and Wilson Rd. are a first for Toront(...)
      James, Norman
      6/10/1964
      Telephone totem pole. Russ Hazelwood of Toronto seems to find this collection of antique telephones a sight worth seeing yesterday at the season's fir(...)
      Telephone totem pole. Russ Hazelwood of Toronto seems to find this collection of antique telephones a sight worth seeing yesterday at the season's fir(...)
      Slaughter, Mike
      5/15/1983
      Leslie Szabo, using antique phone at his Oakville country home on millionaires' row, has a more profound interest in modern telephone systems
      Leslie Szabo, using antique phone at his Oakville country home on millionaires' row, has a more profound interest in modern telephone systems
      Dinsmore, Ted
      4/26/1978
      Tied up on the phone, After five days and five nights on a train from Vancouver with his 14 Holsteins, Andy Ness telephones his safe arrival at the Royal Winter Fair, which opens Friday
      Tied up on the phone, After five days and five nights on a train from Vancouver with his 14 Holsteins, Andy Ness telephones his safe arrival at the Royal Winter Fair, which opens Friday
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      11/11/1974
      Notes of a tour through the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and the north-west territory of the Dominion of Canada. : By Thos. Stephenson, of (...)
      Notes of a tour through the provinces of Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and the north-west territory of the Dominion of Canada. : By Thos. Stephenson, of (...)
      Allan Line Steamship Company Limited
      1883
      Talk shopping: At a Bell Canada Phonecentre Suzane Edwards shows that her employer sells and rents numerous types of exotic telephones
      Talk shopping: At a Bell Canada Phonecentre Suzane Edwards shows that her employer sells and rents numerous types of exotic telephones
      Bull, Ron
      5/21/1982
      Shades of Samson! It's not any Delilah wielding shears, nor has he any fear of being deprived of his great strength as Canadian heavyweight champion G(...)
      Shades of Samson! It's not any Delilah wielding shears, nor has he any fear of being deprived of his great strength as Canadian heavyweight champion G(...)
      Chuvalo, George, 1937-
      5/6/1971
      Shades of Samson! It's not any Delilah weilding shears, nor has he any fear of being deprived of his great strength as Canadian heavyweight champion G(...)
      Shades of Samson! It's not any Delilah weilding shears, nor has he any fear of being deprived of his great strength as Canadian heavyweight champion G(...)
      Chuvalo, George, 1937-
      5/6/1971
      Receipt of customer John Lauder, Esq. Part of Morris Norman donation of business papers, 2002.
      St. Lawrence Lumber Yard. Corner of Front & Berkeley Sts. Bought of Thos. Bryce & Bros. wholesale & retail dealers in all kinds of building material
      1879
      Receipt of customer John Lauder, Esq. Part of Morris Norman donation of business papers, 2002.
      St. Lawrence Lumber Yard. Corner of Front & Berkeley Sts. Bought of Thos. Bryce & Bros. wholesale & retail dealers in all kinds of building material
      1879