Bell System Organization
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Publication
Name
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Content and Audience
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Start
Year*
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AT&T
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Bell System Technical Journal
Bell Telephone Quarterly
(became Bell Telephone Magazine)
AT&T Annual Report
Telephone Almanac (annual)
|
Paid Subscription
News and product info for
Bell System Management
News for Stockholders
Info for Subscribers
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1922
1922 - 1940
1941
1900
1922 - 1963
(except 1945)
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Western
Electric
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WE News
The Microphone
The Dial Tone
WE Magazine
WE News Features
The Engineer (quarterly)
|
Employee News
Hawthorne Works Employees
Indianapolis Employees
News and product info for
Employees and PR Staff
News and product info for
Editors and Bell System PR
Paid Subscription
|
1912 - 1932
1931
1949
1949
--
1957
|
Bell Telephone
Laboratories
|
Bell Laboratories Record
The Reporter
|
BTL "Members" and external
BTL "Members"
|
1923
1952
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Bell of Pennsylvania and
Diamond State Telephone (Delaware)
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The Telephone News
The Bell Ringer
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Employee News
Sales Department News
|
1905
-
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New England Telephone
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Telephone Topics
|
Employee News |
1907
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Wisconsin Telephone
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Wisconsin Telephone News
|
Employee News |
1907
|
Pacific Telephone and
Nevada Bell (Subsidiary of Pacific Tel)
|
Pacific Telephone Magazine
|
Employee News |
1907, July
|
Southern New England Telephone
|
The Telephone Bulletin
|
Employee News |
1908
|
New York Telephone
|
Telephone Review
|
Employee News |
1910
|
Cincinnati Bell
|
Cincinnati Telephone Bulletin
|
Employee News |
1910
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Indiana Bell
|
Indiana Telephone News
|
Employee News |
1911
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| Mountain States Telephone |
The Monitor |
Employee News |
1911 |
Illinois Bell
|
Bell Telephone News
Telenews (biweekly) |
Employee News
Employee News
|
1912
~1965
|
Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone
C&P of Virginia
|
The Transmitter
News Topics
|
Employee News
Employee News |
1913
-
|
Southern Bell
|
Southern Telephone News
Bell Telephone News
|
Employee News
Employee News
|
1913
1925
|
Southwestern Bell
|
Southwestern Telephone News
Scene
Telephone Times (biweekly)
|
Employee News
Employee News
Employee News
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1913
1963
< 1968
|
| Michigan Bell |
The Michigan Bell
Tie Lines (biweekly) |
Employee News
Employee News
|
< 1920
1965 |
| Northwestern Bell |
The Northwestern Bell
Northwestern Bell News
|
Employee News
Employee News
|
1921
1970
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| Ohio Bell |
Ohio Bell |
Employee News |
1924 |
New Jersey Bell
|
New Jersey Bell
|
Employee News |
1928
|
Pacific Northwest Bell
(Split from Pacific Tel on 2/1/60)** |
Cascades |
Employee News |
1961 |
South Central Bell
(Split from Southern Bell on 12/20/67)**
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-
|
Employee News |
-
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Publications
are monthly unless noted otherwise.
Bell System employee publications typically include local
interest stories plus articles from press releases issued by AT&T,
Western Electric and Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Much
of the info was found from my library and internet searches, with
additions from
John Andrews, Steve Cichorsky, Russ Cowell and Richard Romanko.
Thanks!
* Start
Year shows the year and month of Volume I, Number 1 issue (if
known).
Otherwise, the Start Year is calculated by
subtracting the volume
number from the publication year of a found later issue and adding 1
(and possibly modifying the result based on
the
starting month of the
publication year).
** Organization dates are found in "Events
In Telecommunications History," AT&T, 1992.
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