In the early 1990s I was at Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in a rustic looking restaurant I saw a poster called The AT&T Telephone Story showing 30 phones from Bell's first up to the 1960s. Once home, somehow I found out I could order the Telephone Story poster from AT&T Archives, and so I did. What they sent me, however, was not the same. A version from 1990 arrived instead. It was different, but still neat so I framed it and hung it up.
I also recently got the 1969 poster, the one I had originally wanted. If you would like a better view of the poster above, or to see the original 1965 or 1969 poster or even the hard-to-find 1976 poster, you are in luck because David Massey has full scans of them on his web site, Tribute to the Telephone. You can even see close-ups of the phones and their descriptions on each poster!
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