Surfing the net turned up a link:
Today in HistoryOn March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell made the worlds first telephone call to Thomas Watson, his assistant.
Looking further in the Library of Congress web site led to some beautiful pictures:
The Empire That Was Russia
Photographer to the Tsar: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-GorskiiThe photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world--the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution. His subjects ranged from the medieval churches and monasteries of old Russia, to the railroads and factories of an emerging industrial power, to the daily life and work of Russia's diverse population.
