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Print, Communications for Tomorrow: Line Crew Placing a New Cable

This is a Print. It was made for Bell Telephone Company. It is dated 1955 and we acquired it in 1955. Its medium is etching and aquatint in black ink on paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Judson S. Bradley. It is credited Gift of Judson S. Bradley.

Its dimensions are

Platemark: 17.2 × 15 cm (6 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.) Sheet: 28.5 × 24 cm (11 1/4 × 9 7/16 in.)

It is signed

Signed in graphite, lower right: H Sternberg

Cite this object as

Print, Communications for Tomorrow: Line Crew Placing a New Cable; Made for Bell Telephone Laboratories (United States); USA; etching and aquatint in black ink on paper; Platemark: 17.2 × 15 cm (6 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.) Sheet: 28.5 × 24 cm (11 1/4 × 9 7/16 in.); Gift of Judson S. Bradley; 1955-40-2

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