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The Mountain Bell Telephone and Telegraph Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: P-005

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

Contact:
3921 Central Campus Drive Dept 2901
Ogden UT 84408