Technology and Life in Arkansas – Object #2 – Arkansas Primary Source Sets

Young Girl Playing with a Telephone

<p>A young girl, dressed in a white long-sleeved pinafore with a cap on her head, and long curled hair, sits in a nice dining chair, holding an old-time telephone receiver up to a dog, which sits in her lap. She is looking at the camera and smiling.</p>

Photograph shows little girl sitting in chair with dog and holding telephone receiver to dog’s ear, c. 1902

Questions:

List the details you notice in this photograph. For what purposes do you think this girl or her family might use a telephone? How do you think the telephone changed daily life in Arkansas?

Citations

Young Girl Playing With a Wall Telephone, ca. 1902. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.