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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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cuments ashaving a personality of its own. Somuch does the written word partakeof the character of him who pens it,or with whose life and works it isassociated, that it becomes a pro-jection of his own self, a reflection ofhis spirit. A letter thus becomes aliving thing, a hastily scribbled notehas a soul, a proclamation or someother public document becomes apersonage, re-enacting the greatevents of which the man who signed itwas a part. True, photostatic reproductionshave been substituted for these docu-ments which have been taken fromthe glass cases of the Historical Li-brary, or removed, with their frames,from its walls. But the art of thephotographer and its allied arts ofphoto-engraving and printing cannotreproduce the personality inherent inoriginal documents. There are thou-sands of pictures of Magna Charta,but only the original parchments towhich King John reluctantly set handand seal breathe the real drama ofwhat happened at Runnymede on a 242 Bell Telephone Magazine NOVEMBER
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A Corner of the Historical LibraryAlthough many of the most significant records have been removed for the duration, muchthat is of general interest, as well as of value for research, remains. The desk in the fore-ground was used for many years by Theodore I\\ Vail momentous June day in 1215. Re-productions of the Declaration of In-dependence there are almost withoutnumber, but the original alone, withJohn Hancocks bold signature head-ing the list of signers, breathes thereal spirit that brought a nation tobirth. Documents Which Live And so it is with some, if not all,of these documents that form thetelephones historical pattern, andthat have helped to make the Histori-cal Library what it is—an intimate,revealing place in which, if one iswilling to do so, one may rub elbowswith the men and women who havemoved across the telephone scene.The black-bound notebook in which,under date of March 10, 1876, is re-corded the first full sentence of speechtransmitted by telephone: Mr. Wat-son, c

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