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 American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Fig. 249. The Number of Subscribers' Stations Connected to the System of the Bell Telephone Companies

This illustration was shown on the back cover of the 1911 annual report to stockholders of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. For the average stockholder the vertical bars would probably be understood more readily than the curve shown in Fig. 250. Compare with Fig. 250 and Fig. 251