Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Black rotary telephone; transmitter/receiver handset in cradle on raised body with square base; black metal finger wheel above white dial with black numbers; smooth cord, one end attached to handset and the other to back of telephone base.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Manufacturer
- Western Electric Manufacturing Company, USA, founded 1881
- Designer
- George R. Lum, American, 1889 – 1989
- For
- Bell Telephone Laboratories, Washington, DC, USA
- Contributor
- Henry Dreyfuss, American, 1904–1972
- Date
- ca. 1937
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from the Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund
- Medium
- metal, steel, printed paper, rubber-sheathed cord
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 14 x 23 x 18.5cm (5 1/2 x 9 1/16 x 7 5/16in.)
- Type
- appliances & tools
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- telephone
- Type
- telephone
