In the post World War II era, the Cecil Farmers Telephone Company of Rising Sun was growing To accommodate the addition of subscribers, the company added a new switchboard (manufactured by Stromberg-Carlson Company of Rochester, NY) in March 1952. The Rising Sun company was serving 850 subscribers at that time, but a new board added positions for 200 more. In 1940, the company was serving 423 subscribers. Helen Orr worked the new board on the day the photograph was snapped.