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Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D11512-3A
Date(s)
- 1941-06-25 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph employee Harriett Peterson stands next to a towering stack of new telephone books on June 25, 1941. 49,000 copies were ready to be distributed the next day and customers would be surprised at the sheer size. The July 1941 telephone book would have more listings, more pages and more copies printed than any previous Tacoma phone book. Tacoma's phone system had finally become all dial operated.
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. (Tacoma); Telephone directories; Peterson, Harriett;