ADDRESSED TO founder, then PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO.Superintendent Dowd, Washington, had 12 envelopes mailed to Mr. Hernand Behn, each with a 3 cent General Oglethorpe stamp which commemorated Georgia's Bi-Centennial Celebration.
An immigrant to the U.S.A., Hernand Behn, with his bother Sosthenes, organized International Telephone and Telegraph in 1920. They worked jointly with AT&T to lay the telephone cables from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba. As president during the 1920s, Hernand grew the company's assets from $38 million to $535 million, creating a worldwide network of cable and local telephone systems in more than thirty countries.
FYI: Not visible in photos: Envelope pencil marked:
first Day - #766 - '20.
Envelope and postal telegraph in good to excellent condition.
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