Telephone Lines P.5

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Title Telephone Lines P.5
Collection Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection
File Name Telephone_Lines_p.5.tif
Photo Number 18109
Classification 384.6
Publisher Utah State Historical Society
Date of Photograph 1914
Date 1914
Subject Men; Employees; Telephone industry; Telephone companies; Telephones; Utility poles; Public utilities
Corporate Name AT & T (Firm)
Other Subject Telephone lines
Spatial Coverage Nevada
Description A surveying party in Nevada in 1914 measure the pole spans for the first transcontinental telephone line. The surveying work got underway in August of 1913, when crews began measuring the route from Denver to Salt Lake City. Donor: American Telephone and Telegraph Company / AT&T.
Rights Management Digital Image © 2014 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Classified Photograph Collection, 384.6 Telephone Lines
Source Format Print photograph
Source Donors AT& T
Type Image/StillImage
Format image/jpeg
Format Creation Original scanned on Epson Perfection 1240 and saved as 800 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000 pixels on the long axis.
Scanned By Karl Nicholson; Earl Hindley
Barcode Identifier 39222000579941
ARK ark:/87278/s6t7406k
Setname dha_cp
ID 455032
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6t7406k
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