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Auction 148, Lot 157

"Map Showing the Lines of the Bell Telephone Companies in the United States and Canada",

Subject: United States

Period: 1904 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Printed Color

Size:
39 x 25 inches
99.1 x 63.5 cm
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Large heliotype folding map showing the extent of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s network of communication lines primarily within the United States. AT&T's long distance lines are shown in green and the connecting lines from the other Bell Telephone Companies are shown in red overprinting. An early telephone map in very good condition.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding with a few short fold separations and a 3" binding tear, all of which have been closed on verso with archival materials.

Estimate: $180 - $220

Sold for: $130

Closed on 2/19/2014

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