The Mountain Bell Telephone and Telegraph Manuscript Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-001
Dates
- Creation: 1882 - 1977
Extent
10 Folders (The contents of this collection were selected in 1977 from the Salt Lake City archives of Mountain bell Telephone and Telegraph. Martie Collett selected which represented or reflected Ogden and Salt Lake City telephone history as well as materials reflecting Utah telephone history in general) : 1 box
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Fd 1 Telephone Centennial Commemorative stamp
Fd 3 Ogden Telephone History: copy of the 1882 listings in Ogden, monograph on Ogden telephone history
Fd 4 Misc. materials on telephone history in Utah. These were included in Mountain Bell’s Bi-Centennial folder. Some items on the celebration of the 6,000,000th telephone installation in 1976
Fd 5 Copy of the 1890, 1900, and 1910 population statistics in Utah
Fd 6 List of unusual place names in Utah and a description of the origin and/or meaning of each. This list was compiled by R. A. Hart of the SLC Chamber of Commerce
Fd 7 1932 Telephone Almanac printed for Bell System Subscribers by American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Fd 8 1948 correspondence establishing Emma Nutt as the first woman telephone operator
Fd 9 Two monographs describing telephone company contributions to television
Fd 10 Five items, each describing some phase or part of telephone history in general in Utah as well as the rest of the country
- Title
- The Mountain Bell Telephone and Telegraph Manuscript Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 1977
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Eng
Repository Details
Part of the WSU Stewart Library Special Collections Repository