Bell Telephone Company was a telecommunications company that led the Bell System of telephone services throughout North America between 1877 and 1983. This small collection of photographs documents the company's line-laying equipment and process; several images show workers driving tractors, digging trenches, and laying telephone lines. These images would be of interest to scholars of the history of technology and early telecommunications.

Isaac "Ike" Aaronson (1875-1962) was a division construction superintendent for the Bronx Division of the Bell Telephone Company. In this role, he supervised the relocation and splicing of cables in subways, rapid transit, and across bridges. Bell Telephone Company was a telecommunications company that led the Bell System of telephone services throughout North America between 1877 and 1983. This scrapbook primarily focuses on Aaronson's Testimonial Dinner, which was held on April 7, 1938, after he retired from the company after forty-five years. The contents include magazine and newspaper clippings about Aaronson's career and the Testimonial Dinner, telegrams and correspondence sending regrets for being unable to attend the dinner and felicitations on his retirement, a dinner menu, and event photographs. The remainder of the album consists of materials documenting Aaronson's career at the telephone company.