Name/Title
Folder relating to first direct dial long-distance telephone call, 1951Entry/Object ID
2021.34.13Description
Acc. No. 21.34.13
Subject Category: Telephone
Date or Period: 1951
Object: File Folder
Description: folder of moss-green card stock, with an image of a black rotary telephone with superimposed map of the USA, and captions: ‘Long Distance Dialing', 'A nation at your fingertips', and 'A new Bell System Service Introduced at Englewood, New Jersey, Nov. 10. 1951.
Includes a coverlet labeled 'Commemorating the Introduction of Long Distance Dialing' with signatures including those of Leslie Denning, Mayor of Englewood, Frank P. Osborn, Alameda, and of officials of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Company. Folder further includes a cover letter from the Bergen Chamber of Commerce / Historical Society, to Mayor Osborn, photos, news releases, and newsletters of the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Size folder: L 12" x W 9 1/2"
History of Object: folder with documents commemorating the first direct dialed long distance call, a test which was performed by Mayor Denning of Englewood, New Jersey, from the office of New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., to Mayor Frank P. Osborn, of Alameda, on November 10, 1951. The transparent rotary telephone in the museum collection commemorates this event.
Acquired form: Frank P. Osborn
Donated: 1952
Catalog Date: 22 April, 2021
