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Telephone Talk => Telephone Historic Pictures, Signs, Directories, Advertising & Ephemera => Topic started by: Sargeguy on March 16, 2015, 11:44:56 PM

Title: 1900 AT&T Brochure
Post by: Sargeguy on March 16, 2015, 11:44:56 PM
Here is an interesting AT&T brochure which extols the virtue of long distance telephone.  Note that the Blue Bell does not say "Local and".   You can see a rusty outline of an old paperclip on one of the scans:

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-KN0FwUCjXsI/VQc1RNVFxjI/AAAAAAAAb3k/NlzXEqPQO1U/w237-h523-no/ATT%2BFlyer%2B1900%2B%282%29.jpg)  (https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-G52JjLwz8Mg/VQc1RSSBm2I/AAAAAAAAb3w/a0btM1G6Syo/w242-h523-no/ATT%2BFlyer%2B1900%2B%281%29.jpg) 
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-w6F1Tln2Kyg/VQc1R-t4CMI/AAAAAAAAb4A/k4uEYIoUsYQ/w247-h522-no/ATT%2BFlyer%2B1900%2B%283%29.jpg)  (https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-BuuEeoCCSA8/VQc1SGzCMjI/AAAAAAAAb4E/3a8i22fQNQY/w264-h523-no/ATT%2BFlyer%2B1900%2B%284%29.jpg)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cQ-DQApIFRE/VQc1SPu0pII/AAAAAAAAb38/Nn8xTz8hZ0I/w264-h523-no/ATT%2BFlyer%2B1900%2B%285%29.jpg)(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-2LRFcBbhdBo/VQc1SaTnINI/AAAAAAAAb4I/qptlhrYB9b8/w254-h523-no/ATT%2BFlyer%2B1900%2B%286%29.jpg)
Title: Re: 1900 AT&T Brochure
Post by: Sargeguy on March 16, 2015, 11:48:31 PM
This is a scan of the bottom row, I had to knit together two scans which came out with slighty different exposures for some reason.  (https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-zlFuikTIC64/VQc1St3lDJI/AAAAAAAAb4Y/1kD1L7SbF2I/w958-h338-no/ATandT%2Bflyer%2B1900%2B.jpg)
Title: Re: 1900 AT&T Brochure
Post by: Sargeguy on March 16, 2015, 11:50:04 PM
The whole thing folds out to a map of AT&Ts toll lines on the East Coast:

(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-s5Ru9BF5y-A/VQcr1wwqYwI/AAAAAAAAb3M/O7kErRyEud8/w735-h523-no/ATT%2BMAP.jpg)
Title: Re: 1900 AT&T Brochure
Post by: WEBellSystemChristian on March 17, 2015, 10:22:07 AM
The first scan looks identical to the Phoneco Payphone card.
Title: Re: 1900 AT&T Brochure
Post by: Sargeguy on March 17, 2015, 03:29:54 PM
I have seen some of these images before, I think Ron K. Payphone book has some, so it doesn't surprise me.