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Communication, early-mid 20th Century: Contents List

Scroll down for sections with clickable links to pages on what it was like to communicate using letters, telephones, telegrams, duplicate documents and make group presentations in the early-mid 20th century.

Telephones and Telegrams

• Candlestick phones
• Wind-up phones
• Public phones 1920s-1930s
• Public phones 1940s-1950s
• Costs of calls 1940s-1950s
• Illegal free calls 1940s-1950s
• Using a phone 1940s-1950s
• House phones 1940s-1960s
• Telephone exchanges
• Area codes
• Telegrams: importance in the past
• Telegrams: from sending to delivery

Letters

• Writing paper and envelopes
• Holiday mail
• Economy mail
• Fountain pens
• Postage stamps
• Postage rates
• Posting letters
• Receiving letters
• Bureaus writing desks
• Portable writing desks
• Contents of writing desks

Duplication and Presentations

• Shorthand-typists
• Typewriters
• Carbon copies
• The Banda copier
• The overhead projector
• OHP transparencies
• Use of OHP transparencies
• Camera-ready copy for books
• Preparation of crc

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