The following are just a few places you can go to learn more about the history of the telecommunications industry:
Archives:
Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers
American Memory
Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html
British Telecom Archive
http://www.bt.com/archives
International Telecommunication Union Archives
http://www.itu.int
MCI Archives
Hagley Museum and Library
http://www.hagley.lib.de.us
Southern New England Telephone Archives
Thomas Dodd Research Center
University of Connecticut
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/exhibits/snet/firstfifty/index.html
Swedish Telemuseum
http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/templates/StartPage.aspx?id=13327
Telephone Historical Centre - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
http://www.telephonehistoricalcentre.com
On-line exhibits:
Bell System Memorial
http://www.porticus.org/bell/bell.htm
The Cyber Telephone Musuem
http://www.museumphones.com
KIPnotes.com
http://www.kipnotes.com/Telecommunications.htm
Southwest Museum of Engineering,
Communications and Computation
http://www.smecc.org
The Telecommunications Virtual Museum
http://www.telcomhistory.org/vm
Clubs & Associations:
Antique Telephone Collectors Association
http://www.atcaonline.com
Qwest Pioneers Arizona Museum
www.qwestpioneers.org/arizona/mseum.asp
Telephone Collectors International, Inc.
http://www.telephonecollectors.org
TeleCom Pioneers
http://www.telecompioneers.org
Telephone Museum Lists:
David Massey's Telephone Tribute site:
http://www.telephonetribute.com/telephone_museums.html
Telephone Collectors International
http://www.telephonecollectors.org/links/museums.htm
Genealogy:
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
http://www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy/
National Genealogical Society
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/
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