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Call Number:

PH-02073

Collection Name:

Television: an achievement in electrical communication

No. of Items:

6 items

Span Dates:

1984

Description:

Television : an achievement in electrical communication.

[S.l.]: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., [1927].



James Stokley's copy, according to bookseller's description; signed by Stokley and 11 other people, including Herbert Hoover, who were at the 1st demonstration of television.



In loose-leaf binder (30 cm.) with: five 8x10 photographs (2 of the 1st demonstration of television, stamped "Bell Telephone Laboratories"; 3 of the television apparatus); a 5x7 photograph of James Stokley by Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C.; [63] p. of photocopied articles related to television; 2 TLS from Audree Malkin, Theatre Arts Library, UCLA, to William Hallam Webber, dated February 14, 1984, and April 16, 1984; TccLS from William Hallam Webber to Frank Mattson, New York Public Library, dated May 10, 1984; TN from Kimberly to Terry Alford, dated 7/30/84; TLS from Wm. Hallam Webber to M. Taylor Bowie, dated September 9, 1984.

Accession No(s):

987:0024:0001-0006

Location(s):

TK 6630 T445 1927 HRC-P (987:0024:0001-0006)
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