Public telephones are quickly disappearing from our world. The once iconic phone booth has virtually disappeared from the American landscape, and coin and credit-card operated payphones may soon vanish altogether from rural areas. The Payphone Project collects pictures and stories related to payphones from wherever they may still exist, and from wherever they used to be. This is a documentary project which preserves the memory of public telephony through your photographs, stories, and comments.

The Payphone Project was created in 1995 as a single list of payphone numbers and locations in the Manhattan borough of New York City. It has evolved to include a massive collection of about 750,000 payphone numbers and locations throughout the United States and the world.

As the world of public telephony changes so changes the focus of The Payphone Project. If you see a payphone or a phone booth in your daily travels you can feel free to e-mail a picture of it to the Payphone Project!

Welcome to The Payphone Project! This web site contains what is probably the Internet's largest collection of payphone photos from around the world. This site includes photos of phone booths and payphones from all seven continents -- even Antarctica!