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Submitted by Dave on Sun, 04/01/2007 - 2:00am.
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Telephone company switchboard, probably 1920s. Exact location unknown, but somewhere in British Mandate Palestine. View full size. Matson Photo Service.
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Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 9:40am.
Looks like the Bank of america telemarketing bin to me.
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Submitted by Dave on Sun, 04/01/2007 - 6:37pm.
The Matson / American Colony photos are from Jerusalem, back in the days of the British Mandate. "The American Colony was a utopian Christian sect formed by religious pilgrims who emigrated to Jerusalem from the United States and Sweden." More here.
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Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sun, 04/01/2007 - 5:15pm.
I think this might have been in Buffalo at the Central Terminal Train Station.
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