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The Opera House Pharmacy was owned and operated by G.P. Pierce. The first telephone switchboard was located there. Telephone service to the public did not get started in Rossville until August 1900, when manager McMahan of the Alma Telephone Co. offered to establish an exchange. G.P. Pierce asked for and received a 20-year franchise from the city. By the end of the year, telephone lines connected Maple Hill, Rossville, and St. Marys. Shown in the photograph are Ferg Jamieson, Mrs. Pierce, and Mr. G.P. Pierce. This photograph is provided through a pilot project to host unique cultural heritage materials from local libraries on Kansas Memory and was accomplished by mutual agreement between the Northeast Kansas Library System, the Rossville Community Library, and the Kansas Historical Society.
Date: Between 1900 and 1920
Item Number: 99798
Call Number: Business/Industry-RCL0098
Holding Institution: Rossville Community Library
Built Environment - Function - Commerce/Trade - Business
Business and Industry - Health care - Pharmacies
Business and Industry - Media/Communications - Telephone
Collections - Contributing Institutions - Rossville Community Library
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Rossville
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Photographs
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