Rotary Telephone

Manufacturer / MakerCreated by General Electric Company Boston, Massachusetts, founded Schenectady, New York 1892

Dateca. 1945

Mediumplastic, metal

Dimensions6 × 9 × 7 1/2 in. (15.2 × 22.9 × 19.1 cm)

ClassificationsTools & Equipment for Communication

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase

Object numberPC1976.159.4

DescriptionThis is a black rotary telephone, comprised of the main base and the phone itself. The base is square underneath, but the front slopes up and inwards into a pedestal where the phone rests. On this front sloe is also the rotary dial, made of numbers arranged in a circle, with a set of three letters to each number. The phone is long, with a cylindrical middle for grip, and a circular speaker on each end for the mouth and ear. A wire attached the phone to the base, this wire is black, but is frayed and tangled in the middle.

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