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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 2 Utah Telephone History: Six public relations booklets describing telephone history. Includes some reproductions of old photographs within the booklets





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

Contact:
3921 Central Campus Drive Dept 2901
Ogden UT 84408