AT&T commissioned Evelyn Beatrice Longman to create a bronze sculpture that she called Genius of Telegraphy, that was to be placed atop a pyramidal structure on the top of the Fulton Street wing of the building.
Thornton's career commenced at a young age when she learned about her aunt the noted sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman, an American sculptor of repute.
The statue's design by Evelyn Beatrice Longman was selected as the winner of a competition, similar to the 1917 Bell Telephone Memorial.
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