The AT&T Archives Post-SBC Merger?

mrfantasy writes "An article in the Newark, NJ Star-Ledge discusses the possible fate of the AT&T Archives, which is a huge, irreplaceable historical repository of most of the advancements of late 19th and 20th century communications. Corporate archives are often casualties of companies when they are subsumed by a parent organization. The archives include such things as long-distance telephone directories from the mid-1890s, containing every long distance subscriber in the country, including Alexander Graham Bell himself; and a microphone from Warren Harding's 1921 inauguration, the first heard by the crowd thanks to AT&T amplification equipment."

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Dumpster?

[Chuck Chunder]

It's the 21st century.
We have eBay now.

From an 1890

[racecarj]

Alexander Graham Bell's Phone Number: 1

family guy quote

[Anonymous Coward]

Scene: 19th century, A Telephone rings

[Voice on phone]: "Hi, is this 7?"

[Guy]: "No, this is 3!"

Re:Great Case for a Museum

[ahbi]

Hey, here is an idea.

Why don't we create a national museum or series of museums to house and display things relating to our national history or just cool things in general.

You know we could put the museum(s) in a central location. Like the nation's capit[a|o]l.

Maybe we could get some really wealthy person to donate money for the museum(s). We could be nice and name the museum(s) after that person.
Hell, I beat the guy could even be a British scientist. Congress could be a big help here.

And since it is a government sponsored museum, entry could be free, or a nominal charge.

Someday the museum(s) could grow to be the largest museum complex in the world. They could function as "an establishment for the increase & diffusion of knowledge."

Yeah, that would be great.

Re:Corrections

[Apreche]

not AT&aT

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