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Identifier: belltelephonemag08amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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1. Mountain States Telephone Co. Headquarters, Denver, Colo. 2. TelephoneBuilding, Burlingame, Calif. 3. Unattended Telephone Building, Arcadia, Calif,4. Telephone Building, Huntington, X. Y.
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Telephoxe BriLDixos IX Residextial Areas: 1. Silver Spring, Md. 2. Scituate,Mass. 3. Scarsdale, N. Y. 4. Yextura, Calif. Bell System Buildings—An Intepretation impresses the casual visitor. A Greek hypostylehall, Kenneth Clark called it in an article in the Ar-chitectural Record, possessing in size and scale someof the impressiveness that the Egyptian Temples musthave had with their forests of columns and the vistasof dignity and grandeur between them. He addedthat: To realize the true scale of this hall it shouldbe seen at night; the play of light on the highly pol-ished walls and columns is very interesting and the bigness of the scheme is apparent, especially if onesees, at the end of one of the long vistas, a figure pass-ing. Then the coIuutqs assume their true proportions,by contrast, for . . . they seem almost overpowering,owing to their number and the scale, which in this in-terior seems greater than in any other modern example.The whole impression created is one of simple ri

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