Call Box
About this photograph
- Provider
- Biltmore Company
- Date created
- 2007
- Location
- Asheville, North Carolina
- License
- Copyright unknown.
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- A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate: This tour of “America's Castle” explains the technological features George Vanderbilt incorporated into his turn-of-the-century home. (Page 5)
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This photograph shows an oak cabinet with a glass front hanging on a wall. It was part of an elaborate servants call system. Beneath the glass on the cabinet are raised small arrows that pointed to the room from which the call originated. Battery-powered electric bells would ring to let the servants know that assistance was needed. The metal handle at the base of the box was used to reset the arrows.
