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English: PT&T boom truck, Seattle, circa 1920   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Photographer
Walter P. Miller  (1887–1938)  wikidata:Q41783999
 
Alternative names
Walter Miller
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death circa  Edit this at Wikidata 14 September 1938 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Illinois Skagit County
Work period circa early 1900s
date QS:P,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P4241,Q40719727,P1480,Q5727902
 Edit this at Wikidata–1938 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Seattle; Washington Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q41783999
Title
English: PT&T boom truck, Seattle, circa 1920
Description
English:

One of Seattle's original service providers when telephones were introduced to the city in 1883, Sunset Telephone-Telegraph Company was known as Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company from the 1910s through 1984, and grew to service many areas on the West coast. After the Bell System divestiture, the Pacific Bell Telephone Company, as it is known in 2018, still provides telephone service in California. This image shows a PT&T swinging boom pole derrick truck (or crane truck), which is used for hoisting long objects like telephone and utility poles.

Caption information source: The Seattle Daily Times, September 2, 1923, page 6

  • Subjects (LCTGM): Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company; Telephone companies--Washington (State)--Seattle; Trucks--American--Washington (State)--Seattle
Depicted place
English: United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Date circa 1920
date QS:P571,+1920-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium
English: 1 photographic print: b&w
Dimensions height: 7.5 in (19 cm); width: 9.7 in (24.7 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,7.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,9.75U218593
institution QS:P195,Q219563
Current location
Museum of History and Industry
Accession number
11139
Source
English: Museum of History and Industry
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The author died in 1938, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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MOHAI, Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. Photographs, 2005.13.45

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