Kit, Tool
- Object Name:
- Kit, Tool
- Object ID:
- 2009.033.02
- Place of Origin:
- Houston, TX
- Date:
- 1986
- Description:
- Telephone technician's pole numbering kit. Used by James L. Dimick of Concord, NH, from 1986 until his retirement in 2003. Rectangular steel box, painted green; loop handle on each end; hinged lid with loop handle on top; green felt inside lid; two metal clasps on front. Box has 14 compartments containing aluminum letters and numerals, and several aluminum tags embossed "NET&T Co". The tags are packaged in plastic bags labeled, "POLE TAG INSIGNIA-NET&T Co / Texbrook Industries / Div. Platt-Hardin, Inc. / Houston, Texas". One compartment contains galvanized nails.
- Material:
- Metal
Steel
Aluminum - Dimensions:
- H-3 W-11 D-7 inches
- Provenance:
- James L. Dimick was born in Concord, NH, in 1946. His family lived on Cypress Street. Jim was a telephone technician for New England Telephone Company in Concord, 1969-1983, and then for AT&T in Concord until 1986. He worked in Laconia from 1986 to 2003, first for NYNEX, then Bell Atlantic, then Verizon.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of James L. Dimick
- People:
- Dimick, James L. (1946- )
- Subjects:
- Telephone companies, Telephone lines, Telephone poles, Telephones
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