Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. 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. Unidentified officials of the Southern California Telephone Company sit at a table wearing headphones. Photograph was taken on the occasion of a 10-minute phone call between N. R. Powley of SCTC 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. Text from negative sleeve: Powley, N. R. S.C. Tele. Co 1923 [sic] Handwritten on negative: 1st telephone to London
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_7234 ark:/21198/zz002cxm2g
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Telephones Business people--American--California--Los Angeles
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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