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The Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation (SNET), a pioneer in the telecommunications industry, generously donated a significant collection of its early corporate archives to the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut in 2002.
The collection covers the time period from the company's inception in 1878 to the breakup of the Bell System in 1983 and consists of thousands of items. Some major categories include:
- Advertising files and samples
- Annual Reports
- Connecticut Public Utilities Commission files include rate case data
- Historical files maintained by corporate officials
- Minutes of Board of Directors and annual stockholders meetings
- Monographs from the employees' library including Connecticut town histories
- Photographs of buildings, people and equipment
- Public relations and promotional materials
- Technical documentation of an overview nature
- Telephones (representative types from the 20th century)
- Serial sets including an extensive run of the Telephone Bulletin
- Records of the Telephone Pioneers employees group
- Video and audio cassettes
The collection is now available for use by interested researchers. A detailed finding aid is available at the reference desk in Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. In addition, two on-line exhibits are available to provide a look at some of the treasures of SNET's long and important history, at:
www.lib.uconn.edu/online/research/speclib/ASC/exhibits/snet/firstfifty.
Contact: Laura Katz Smith
Curator of Business, Railroad, Labor, and Immigration Collections
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
405 Babbidge Road, Unit 1205
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1205
E-mail:
Laura.Katz.Smith@uconn.edu
Phone: (860) 486-2516
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