The Detroit news timely topics. Bell's first telephone – Vintage Print
![The Detroit news timely topics. Bell's first telephone, [between 1915 and 1925] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8d/8dc336a3d056-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The Detroit news timely topics. Bell's first telephone comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Detroit news timely topics. Bell's first telephone
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This picture is a copy of a photographic print showing Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone, captioned as a "Timely Topics" item in the Detroit News. The print came from Underwood & Underwood, a firm known for news and stereograph photography, and the Detroit Publishing Company later photographed it as a glass negative. Bell's 1876 patent and his first intelligible transmission to his assistant Thomas Watson made the instrument a landmark of the telephone's early history. The record's date range places the copy around the time the telephone was becoming a common household fixture.
| Created / published | [between 1915 and 1925] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. |
| Genre | photographers |
| Notes | Photograph of a photographic print by Underwood & Underwood |
| Subjects | Bell, Alexander Graham,--1847-1922. Telephones. Firsts. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 702 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-77337 |
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