Library jewel #3: ’93 phone book — 1893, that is!
(Image courtesy of Washington State Library) Nowadays, many people dislike receiving their own hard copy of the telephone directory. But even the anti-phone book crowd might be intrigued by our third and final Library jewel for December: an 1893 telephone directory published by the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company. The phone book was for the company’s Northwest Division and covered much of the Puget Sound region south to Portland and other communities in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. As the photo shows,…