Objects tagged handsets
We have 2 objects tagged handsets.
- Model 302 Telephone
- cast and enamel-coated metal, steel, printed paper, rubber-sheathed cord.
- Museum purchase from the Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
- 1994-73-2
- This object was made by Western Electric Manufacturing Company.
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- There are 5 images of this object.
![A black molded plastic telephone with a sloping cuboid body and a black circular plastic dial in the center surrounded by white numbers 1 to 0, the letters A to Y, and the word [OPERATOR] in white capital letters, printed under the zero, all arranged in a circle around the dial, their positions correspond to fingerholes in a smaller circular clear plastic casing in the center of the black dial, which has a white circle at its center with the words [AREA CODE] in black capitals at the top. A barbell shaped black plastic telephone handset sits in a cradle on top of the body with a coiled black wire extending from the telephone handset to the body.](https://images.collection.cooperhewitt.org/42945_30c7286d635f34ec_n.jpg "Model 500 Telephone")
- Model 500 Telephone
- molded plastic, metal, rubber.
- Transfer from Exhibitions Department.
- 2009-50-1-a/c
- This object was made by Western Electric Manufacturing Company.
- This object is part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts collection.
- There are 2 images of this object.
