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FIRST TELEPHONE DIRECTORY ISSUED ON THIS DATE IN 1878

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This is one of two known copies of the first telephone directory, consisting of a single
page, issued by the New Haven District Telephone Company in Connecticut. It covered   
50 subscribers.

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