Classroom use of the Picturephone, 1973 Distance education Telephone in education Bell Labs Western Electric Company Photograph of the Western Electric Picturephone used by IIT's Evening Division in interactive distance learning classes. Illinois Tech's Picturephone classes, the first in the country, debuted in 1974, offered to Bell employees in downtown Chicago and Oakbrook. Photographer unknown. 1973 Still image Black and white photograph image/tiff islandora:1001077 0360401-YY4-13-001 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:1001077 Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999 Illinois Tech Libraries Illinois Institute of Technology en Chicago (Ill.) In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/