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If postcard collecting is a "window to the world" then collecting postcards with a telephone theme gives a wonderful picture of all aspects of telephone history - importantly, its' place in every day life.

Naturally the big benefit in collecting paper articles, is that they are so easy to store unlike the telephone equipment that is so bulky.

The following images are just a few of the better examples of the thousands of telephone related postcards that are reasonably easy to find.

If I ever try to put together a more complete picture, there would be Telephone related Postcards in a very broad range of categories such as -

Storylines

The Call Centre

Why we can't do without the Bell Telephone in the early 1900's