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Green plastic desk-style rotary dial telephone with push-button switchboard and red handset. The Shawnee County Emergency Management department, previously known as the Civil Defense department, used this telephone. It was used in the Emergency Operations Center housed in the sub-basement of the Shawnee County Courthouse at 7th and Quincy, Topeka, Kansas. According Civil Defense staff, the phone was used during the 1966 Topeka Tornado. The phone was connected to a speaker.
Creator: Western Electric Company
Date: between 1960 and 1969
Item Number: 221681
Call Number: 2008.31.12.1
KSHS Identifier: 2008.31.12.1
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Community services - Courthouses and city halls
Community Life - Disasters and accidents - Tornadoes
Date - 1960s
Government and Politics - Local Government - County - Emergency Management and Communications
Objects and Artifacts - Tools & Equipment for Communication - Telecommunication - Telephone
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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