Southern New England Telephone Company Records
Southern New England Telephone Company Records finding aid . The records of the Southern New England Telephone Company ( SNET) reflect the long... Show moreSouthern New England Telephone Company Records finding aid . The records of the Southern New England Telephone Company ( SNET) reflect the long history of a pioneering and innovative telephone company. The collection consists of material dating from the formation of the New Haven District Telephone Company and the invention of the switchboard in 1878 to the merger of the Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation and SBC Communications Inc. in 1998. However, the bulk of the material predates the 1983 Bell System divestiture.The collection covers a wide range of records from SNET. It is particularly strong in advertising material with print, radio, and television information spanning sixty years from 1920 to 1980, early financial data, and photographic material that depict not only the business but the entire state of Connecticut. The company also kept an extensive file of “historical material” which contains town histories, exchange histories, personal recollections of key figures, and information about storms and disasters. The early correspondence found in Series I, Administration/Business, provides an interesting glimpse into the development of the telephone business and the telephone's acceptance in society. Of special interest might also be the records of the predecessor and subsidiary companies of SNET. The collection also includes a substantial set of directories ranging from 1878 to the 1960s. Included with the directories is the only known copy of the first directory ever printed.The collection, however, has several gaps. The collection does not contain a substantial amount of personnel material. What few items there are can be found in Series I, Administration/Business. There is virtually no information on labor relations and there is very little information of a technical nature, or on product development. Show less
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- Commercial buildings
- Clothing and dress
- Industrial recreation
- Dwellings
- Outdoor recreation
- Telephone -- Equipment and supplies
- Telephone operators
- Trucks
- New England Hurricane (1938)
- Factories
- Telephone cables
- Telephone companies
- Telephone
- Telephone switchboards
- Hats
- Offices
- Carriages and carts
- Floods
- Pedestrians
- Flood, 1936
- Telephone lines
- Churches
- Clerks
- Parks
- Radiotelephone
- Blue collar workers
- Crowds
- Stock certificates
- Bridges
- Cities and towns
- Employees
- Fairs
- Industrial buildings
- Museum buildings
- Weddings
- Airplanes
- Buses
- Driving horses
- Employees' magazines, newsletters, etc.
- Housing
- Mobile communication systems
- Office buildings
- Rivers
- Roads, Earth
- Applications for positions
- Cafeterias
- Covered bridges
- Entertaining
- Fishing
- Office furniture
- Radio stations
- Railroad stations
- Roads
- Statues
- Supervisors
- Telephone -- Directories
- Trolley cars
- Women air pilots
- Advertising
- Buildings -- Natural disaster effects
- Capitols
- Children
- Church buildings
- Classrooms
- Coins
- Diving
- Diving suits
- Education
- Fire engines
- Flood damage
- Golf
- Greens
- Hotels
- Hurricane, 1944
- Hurricanes
- Lounges
- Radio stations -- Employees
- Railroad bridges
- Railroads -- Crossings
- Railroads -- Track
- Service stations
- Telephone systems
- Tents
- Theaters
- Tobacco
- Tobacco curing
- Tobacco workers
- Accountants
- African American men
- Apartments
- Artists
- Beaches
- Boats and boating
- Camp sites, facilities, etc.
- Camping
- Connecticut (state)
- Danbury (inhabited place)
- Bridgeport (inhabited place)
- Main Street (Torrington, Conn.)
- Quinnipiac River
- West Haven (inhabited place)
- Westport (inhabited place)
- Maiden Lane (Torrington, Conn.)
- New Milford (inhabited place)
- Salisbury (inhabited place)
- Wilton (inhabited place)
- 21 Congress Street (Bridgeport, Conn.)
- Hartford (county)
- Main Street (New Britain, Conn.)
- Middletown (inhabited place)
- New Britain (inhabited place)
- River Street (Milford, Conn.)
- Rockville (inhabited place)
- Stamford (inhabited place)
- Trumbull Street (Hartford, Conn.)
- Winsted (inhabited place)
- Arch Street (New Britain, Conn.)
- Bank Street (Waterbury, Conn.)
- Bushnell Park (Hartford, Conn.)
- Chapel Street (New Haven, Conn.)
- Chestnut Street (New Britain, Conn.)
- Church Street (New Haven, Conn.)
- Durham (inhabited place)
- East Hampton (inhabited place)
- Elm Street (New Canaan, Conn.)
- Litchfield (county)
- Madison (inhabited place)
- Main Street (New Canaan, Conn.)
- Main Street (Westport, Conn.)
- Niantic (inhabited place)
- Norwalk (inhabited place)
- Norwich (inhabited place)
- Old Lyme (inhabited place)
- Shelton (inhabited place)
- Walnut Street (New Britain, Conn.)
- West Cornwall (inhabited place)
- Beacon Falls
- Bloomfield (inhabited place)
- Branford (inhabited place)
- Branford River
- Capitol Avenue (Hartford, Conn.)
- Center Street (Wallingford, Conn.)
- Crescent Beach
- East Windsor (inhabited place)
- Fairfield Avenue (Bridgeport, Conn.)
- Farmington (inhabited place)
- Franklin Street (Norwich, Conn.)
- High Street (Thompsonville, Conn.)
- Housatonic River (Mass. and Conn.)
- Main Street (Bridgeport, Conn.)
- Main Street (Bristol, Conn.)
- Main Street (Cheshire, Conn.)
- Main Street (Hartford, Conn.)
- Main Street (Manchester, Conn.)
- Main Street (Meriden, Conn.)
- Main Street (Ridgefield, Conn.)
- Main Street (Stafford Springs, Conn.)
- Main Street (Thomaston, Conn.)
- Main Street (Waterbury, Conn.)
- Meriden Road (Middlefield, Conn.)
- New London (county)
- North Branford (inhabited place)
- North Broad Street (Milford, Conn.)
- Old Saybrook (inhabited place)
- Pearl Street (Thompsonville, Conn.)
- Plymouth (inhabited place)
- Putnam (inhabited place)
- Rocky Neck State Park
- Sharon (inhabited place)
- Simsbury (inhabited place)
- South Broad Street (Milford, Conn.)
- Thomaston (inhabited place)
- Weston Road (Westport, Conn.)
- Willimantic (inhabited place)
- Windsor Locks (inhabited place)
- 114-126 Court Street (New Haven, Conn.)
- 19 West Street (Essex, Conn.)
- 227 Church Street (New Haven, Conn.)
- 248 Old Whitfield Street (Guilford, Conn.)
- 35 West Main Street (Meriden, Conn.)
- 572 Main Street (Ansonia, Conn.)
- 800 Main Street (Hartford, Conn.) 370 Asylum Street (Hartford, Conn.)
- 84 Boston Street (Guilford, Conn.)
- 96 Palisado Avenue (Windsor, Conn.)
- Asylum Street (Hartford, Conn.)
- Atlantic (Stamford, Conn.)
- Atlantic Stree (Stamford, Conn.)
- Atlantic Street (Stamford, Conn.)
- Bank Street (New Britain, Conn.)
- Bedford Street (Stamford, Conn.)