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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b7042423.
- catalog contributor b7042424.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-135).".
- catalog extent "135 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0151000867 :".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Harcourt Brace,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "302.23/5/0973 20".
- catalog subject "HE8817 .S86 1994".
- catalog subject "Telephone Social aspects United States History.".
- catalog subject "Telephone United States Anecdotes.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""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.".
- catalog title "Once upon a telephone : an illustrated social history / Ellen Stern and Emily Gwathmey.".
- catalog type "Anecdotes. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".