Finding Aid for Michigan Bell Telephone Company records, 1877-1953
01773

Summary Information

Repository
Detroit Public Library. Burton Historical Collection.
Title
Michigan Bell Telephone Company records
ID
01773
Date
1877-1953
Extent
3.3 linear ft.
General Physical Description note
(3 boxes, 6 volumes, 3 large manuscripts)
Language
English
Abstract
Includes company records. Also correspondence from Charles E. Wilde, Grand Rapids District Commercial Manager.

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Biographical/Historical note

Formerly known as the Telephone & Telegraph Construction Company.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Detroit Public Library. Burton Historical Collection. Feb. 18, 2010

Conditions Governing Access note

This collection is open for research use.

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Michigan Bell Telephone Company records,1877-1953, 1877-1926 (OCLC record)

[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/519442454]

Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • Michigan Bell Telephone Company -- Archives.

Genre(s)

  • Clippings (information artifacts) -- aat
  • Correspondence -- aat
  • Histories -- aat
  • Legal documents -- aat
  • Phonograph records -- aat
  • Photographs -- aat
  • Reports -- aat

Geographic Name(s)

  • Michigan -- Commerce.

Subject(s)

  • Telephone companies -- Michigan.

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Other Finding Aids note

Finding aid and white index cards available in the Burton Historical Collection and on the World Wide Web.

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Collection Inventory

Original papers 

Box 1 

Scope and Contents note

Papers; statements of operating costs and revenue. 1920-1926.

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Additional papers 

BOX 1 

1:1 Accounts, 1880-1919 

1:2 Correspondence and Press Releases, 1900-1953 

1:3 History 

1:4 Recollections of the Telephone Business, 1887-1914 

1:5 40th Anniversary of Charles E. Wilde, Grand Rapids District Commercial Manager, 1924-1925 

1:6 50th Anniversary Recollections of the Bell Telephone System, by Charles Wilde, 1925-1926 

1:7 Correspondence, 1925-1929 

1:8 Telephone and Telegraph Construction Company, 1880-1894 1:9 Legal Documents, 1879-1913 

1:10 Photostats 

1:11 Contracts and Correspondence 

1:12 Photographs 

1:13 Directories 

1:14 Printed Material--Booklets and Pamphlets, 1884-1953 

1:15 Magazine Articles 

BOX 2 

2:1 Printed Material--Maps and Drawings 

2:2 Newsletters, 1923-1929 

2:3 Newspaper Clippings, 1894 

2:4 1889-1926; n.d. 

2:5 from Scrapbook, 1899-1901 

2:6 1926-1938 

2:7 Excerpts from Port Huron, Detroit and Grand Rapids Papers, 1877-1895 

2:8 Sale of Michigan Telephone Company, 1903 

2:9 Reports, 1900- 1916 

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