The AT&T Archives Post-SBC Merger?

Posted by Zonk on Sunday February 13, 2005 @03:35PM from the technological-history dept.

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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Typo by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-13 15:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

It's actually the Star-Ledger.

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Auction it off by OverlordQ · 2005-02-13 15:42 · Score: 0, Redundant

You can be sure some Private Collectors would probably buy up alot of this stuff if they auctioned it off.

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