| Title |
Telephone Lines P.3 |
| Collection |
Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection |
| File Name |
Telephone_Lines_p.3.tif |
| Photo Number |
18107 |
| Classification |
384.6 |
| Publisher |
Utah State Historical Society |
| Date of Photograph |
25 January 1915 |
| Date |
1915-01-25 |
| Subject |
Telephone lines |
| Person |
Carty, John J.; McAney, George; Bethell, Union N.; Bell, Alexander Graham, 1847-1922; Mitchell, John Purroy, 1879-1918; Yost, C. E.; Pendergast, William A.; Vail, Theodore N. |
| Corporate Name |
AT&T |
| Spatial Coverage |
New York, New York City |
| Description |
Participating in the ceremonies in New York for the opening of the first transcontinental telephone line on January 25, 1915 were: (from left) John J. Carty, chief engineer of AT&T; George McAney, president of the New York Board of Aldermen; Union N. Bethell, senior vice president of AT&T; Alexander Graham Bell; Mayor John Purroy Mitchell; C. E. Yost, presdient of the Nebraska Telephone Company and dean of Bell System presidents; and Comptroller William A. Pendergast of New York. Above Bell is a photograph of Theodore N. Vail, presdient of AT&T, who participated in the ceremony from Jekyll Island, Georgia, where he was recuperating from a fall. |
| Rights Management |
Digital Image © 2014 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved. |
| Holding Institution |
Utah State Historical Society |
| Relation |
Classified Photograph Collection, 384 Mail Systems, Pony Express, Telegraph |
| 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 |
93222001412365 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6x07pb9 |
| Setname |
dha_cp |
| ID |
454683 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6x07pb9 |
