BELL ALEXANDER GRAHAM Large Photograph dated and Signed

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FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL TELEPHONE CALL BELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM. Large Photograph dated and Signed, group portrait by Underhill, showing the great inventor seated at a table with 6 American Telephone & Telegraph executives and New York notables during the ceremony inaugurating transcontinental telephone service. Inscribed in the blank margin at bottom center. Additionally signed by the photographer, in pencil, at bottom right. Approximately 10x13 inches (image), approximately 13 3/4x17 inches overall; mounted to a sheet trimmed to size, four tiny holes and staining from staples in top margin. [New York], 25 Jan[uary] 1915

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The executives seated with Bell are, from the left, Chief Engineer of AT&T John J. Carty, Manhattan Borough President George McAneny, Senior Vice President of AT&T U.N. Bethell, Mayor of New York City John Purroy Mitchel, President of the Northwestern Group Caspar E. Yost, and New York City Comptroller William A. Prendergast.
with--Bancroft Gherardi. Typed Letter Signed, "BGherardi," stating that "Mr. Bell has been good enough to let me have his autograph upon a number of pictures," sending the present photograph, and indicating the names and titles of those depicted. 1 page, 4to, John J. Carty's AT&T stationery. New York, 24 April 1915.