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A building of telephone switching equipment in Davenport, Iowa, is seen here looking about how you might have imagined it would look before you saw it.

"Oh!, another one of these," I said.

 

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In downtown Davenport, Iowa, on April 12th, 2010, the backside of an AT&T building (said here to have been built in 1958) on the southeast corner of North Harrison Street (at that time, U.S. Route 61) and West 6th Street.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Davenport (7013507)

• Scott (county) (2000642)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• back views (300264745)

• Mid-Century Modernist (300343610)

• rear (300010287)

• telephone exchanges (300005416)

 

Wikidata items:

• 12 April 2010 (Q22664008)

• 1950s in architecture (Q11185577)

• 1958 in architecture (Q2812203)

• April 12 (Q2499)

• April 2010 (Q242919)

• AT&T (Q35476)

• Black Hawk Purchase (Q879963)

• Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area (Q7268261)

• Quad Cities (Q1660598)

• U.S. Route 61 (Q409964)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Telephone stations (sh85133431)

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Taken on April 12, 2010