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Title	George A. Long, Hartford.
Place	Hartford (Conn.)
Topic	Inventors
Genre	Photographs Portrait photography
Theme	Livelihood Lifestyle
Description	Portrait of a man seated in a wooden armchair. He wears a suit, vest, tie and watch chain and fob. A handkerchief is in his coat pocket. He is smiling. A desk, slightly out of focus, is behind him. Books and a telephone are on the desk. Inscribed on back: "George A. Long - First Pay Telephone / In 1887 George a. Long was a 17 year old apprentice / pattern maker at Pratt & Whitney when he was asked / to construct a model of the world's first pay station / telephone. A patent was secured in 1888 and the Gray / Pay Station Telephone Co. was formed in 1891 by William Gray, Amos Whitney and Charles Soby. Long / joined the company in 1901 and rose to the position of president and general manager in 1929. A holder / of more than 100 patents, Long was successful / in developing a special lock for pay telephones which / led him to form the Long Security Lock Company."
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. The Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. was located at 16-30 Arbor Street, Hartford.
Date created	[192-]
Physical format	1 photographic print ; 17 x 21 cm.
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number x.2000.29.42 File name 0535 img0087.pcd
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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