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Photographer: Photo Courtesy Jekyll Island Museum
Caption: First Transcontinental Call
Additional Description: Seated inside a parlor at Georgia’s legendary Jekyll Island Club, A.T.&T. President Theodore N. Vail (far right) participates in America’s first transcontinental telephone call, on Jan. 25, 1915. Also attending the historic communications event on Jekyll Island are (left to right) noted American architects William Welles Bosworth and Samuel Breck Parkman Trowbridge and Jekyll Island Club members J.P. Morgan, Jr. and William Rockefeller. Vail’s telephone party line includes U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in Washington, D.C.; telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, in New York; and Bell’s assistant, Thomas A. Watson, in San Francisco.
Submitted: April 2, 2019, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p468734
File Size: 1.842 Megabytes

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