Telephone company bills, 1887-1890.

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Telephone company bills, 1887-1890.

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Bills from the Willimantic, Connecticut office to E. Clinton Winchester. Includes some individual tickets for "extra-territorial communications."

23 items.

Connecticut Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6817006

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Winchester, E. Clinton.

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Southern New England Telephone Company

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On 27 April 1877, Alexander Graham Bell gave a demonstration of his new invention, the telephone, at Skiff's Opera House in New Haven, Connecticut. This presentation piqued the interest and ingenuity of George Coy, a civil war veteran and manager for the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company. On 3 November 1877, George Coy was awarded a Bell telephone franchise for New Haven and Middlesex counties. The New Haven Telephone District was created in 1878. After a long history of mergers and growth,...