THG Archives Online

A small sample of the thousands of documents, photographs, and other records that we care for in our archives is available for viewing online, as linked below. In addition, we have several online exhibits in our Resources section.

Photographs

Our photograph collection consists of over 100,000 prints and 20,000 negatives from as far back as 1876.

Postcards

Postcards helped individuals communicate with one another across the nation, quickly and affordably. The Telecommunications History Group has dozens of telecommunications-related postcards.

Advertising

This exhibit features advertising used to reach telephone customers, illustrating not only changing societal customs, norms, and fashions, but also what the telephone industry wished to convey about itself.

Stock Certificates

The Telecommunications History Group Archives includes a large collection of historic telecommunications-related stock certificates.

Santee Collection

This collection documents a presidential journey from the point of view of an expert telecommunications engineer.