The Mountain Bell Telephone and Telegraph Photograph Collection
Abstract
The contents of this photograph collection were selected in 1977 from the Salt Lake City archives of Mountain Bell Telephone and Telegraph. Martie Collett, Special Collections Librarian, Stewart Library, selected items which reflected Ogden and Salt Lake City telephone history, as well as Utah telephone history.
Dates
- Creation: 1956 - 1976
Extent
1 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
FD 1-3 Telephone Company display, April 9, 1956, commemoration the opening of the Salt Lake exchange 75 years before
FD 4 Unidentified building and people
FD 5 1976 six millionth telephone installed, University of Utah
FD 6-8 Pictures of John F. Kennedy taken from control room of television station, 1963
FD 9 Commemorative photo of Gov. Calvin Rampton using gold-plated trimline phone on the event of the installation of the on hundred millionth telephone installation. Each governor received a phone. With Rampton is Howard Blood, Public Relations, Mountain Bell.
FD 10 Western Electric Branch, Salt Lake City, Utah
FD 11-13 Unidentified buildings and street
FD 14 “This is the Place” Monument, Salt Lake City
FD 15-20 Unidentified buildings, people, and streets
FD 21 Railroad—possibly the laying of the Golden Spike
FD 22 Unidentified building
FD 23 Six millionth telephone commemoration-data phone installed LDS Hospital Nov. 1, 1976 for heart research
FD 24-27 Unidentified telephone workers at work
FD 28 Ogden, Utah 1888 Telephone Company office. Unidentified persons
FD 29 Salt Lake City, late 19th Century
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the WSU Stewart Library Special Collections Repository