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Once upon a telephone : an illustrated social history / Ellen Stern and Emily Gwathmey.
- Title
- Once upon a telephone : an illustrated social history / Ellen Stern and Emily Gwathmey.
- Author
- Stern, Ellen.
- Publication
- New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994.
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- Additional Authors
- Gwathmey, Emily Margolin.
- Description
- 135 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "The telephone rings. It jingles our psyches, jangles our nerves. We are seduced and soothed, rattled and betrayed by it. Wherever it is--on the desk or street corner, the high seas or highway, in our bathrooms or briefcases--it has, for a machine, an allure like no other. Once Upon a Telephone is a visual history of this indispensable and inescapable apparatus--with an emphasis on the days before 800s, 900s, voice mail, and FAX. Lavishly illustrated in full color with a wealth of twentieth-century ephemera--everything from movie stills to matchbooks--and including excerpts from a variety of literary sources, Once Upon a Telephone is a spirited tribute to operators, directories, phone booths, and, of course, the appliance itself. The evolution of telephony irreversibly altered conventions of modern romance and constructions of power; Once Upon a Telephone is the only work in existence to chronicle these changes in such a comprehensive and entertaining fashion."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-135).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "My God, it talks!" -- "Hello, Central!" -- Form and function -- The telephone book -- "Give me a ring" -- Love on the line -- "Don't call us, we'll call you" -- Gigglegiggle, talktalktalk -- The pay phone -- Bell's hell.
- ISBN
- 0151000867 :
- LCCN
- ^^^93050854^
- OCLC
- 29668595
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library