100 Years Before the Smartphone: 40 Photos of People Talking on Telephones in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries _ Old US Nostalgia

   

Today, almost everyone knows and owns at least one smartphone. It is also very handy, and essential to us in our daily lives.

So how about 100 years ago? Check out these interesting photos to see how people used the telephones in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.