Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Southern California Telephone Company vice-president and general manager N. R. Powley sits at the head of a table with an old-fashioned "candlestick" telephone. He is accompanied by fourteen other seated men, some of whom are wearing headphones. Photograph was taken on the occasion of a 10-minute phone call between Powley and H. E. Shreve, assistant to the vice-president of the American Telegraph Company, in his office in London. At that time, the call set a world record for long distance transmission of a human voice. Related to story, “Pacific Coast Holds Phone Conversation With London,” Los Angeles Times, Feb. 27, 1927: 3. Similar photo ran with story, "Now It's Voices Instead of Hands Across the Seas," Los Angeles Times, Feb. 27, 1927: 3. Text from negative sleeve: Powley, N. R. S.C. Tele. Co 1923 [sic]
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_7233 ark:/21198/zz002cxm1z
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Telephones Business people--American--California--Los Angeles Powley, Ned R., 1885 or 1886-1956
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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