{"id":5989,"date":"2015-10-27T18:39:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=5989"},"modified":"2015-10-27T18:39:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:39:28","slug":"archivist-laura-smith-featured-in-hartford-courant-story-about-1880-telephone-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/10\/27\/archivist-laura-smith-featured-in-hartford-courant-story-about-1880-telephone-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Archivist Laura Smith featured in Hartford Courant story about 1880 telephone directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/10\/hc-1880-phone-book-cover-20151023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5990\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/10\/hc-1880-phone-book-cover-20151023-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"hc-1880-phone-book-cover-20151023\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/10\/hc-1880-phone-book-cover-20151023-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/10\/hc-1880-phone-book-cover-20151023.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/features\/hc-phone-book-auction-1023-20151023-story.html\">recent news story in the Hartford Courant<\/a>, archivist Laura Smith was asked to share her knowledge and expertise relating to a historical curiosity &#8212; an 1880 Hartford telephone directory listing the few hundred households with telephones, including that of &#8220;Clemens, Samuel L., author, 95 Farmington&#8221; aka Mark Twain. \u00a0The item appeared last week in an\u00a0online auction catalog. \u00a0Spencer Moore is the owner of the artifact. Moore inherited the directory from his grandfather, Carlan Goslee, who died in 1970. \u00a0&#8220;Goldin Auctions, based in West Berlin, N.J., lists Moore&#8217;s artifact as the second-oldest telephone directory in existence, which is not accurate,&#8221; according to reporter\u00a0Susan Dunne.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Archives and Special Collections at University of Connecticut Libraries owns one of two existing original copies of the oldest phone directory in existence, according to UConn archivist Laura Smith. The single-sheet director was produced in February 1878 by the District Telephone Company of New Haven, the world&#8217;s first commercial telephone exchange, which had been established the month before.&#8221; \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/features\/hc-phone-book-auction-1023-20151023-story.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent news story in the Hartford Courant, archivist Laura Smith was asked to share her knowledge and expertise relating to a historical curiosity &#8212; an 1880 Hartford telephone directory listing the few hundred households with telephones, including that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/10\/27\/archivist-laura-smith-featured-in-hartford-courant-story-about-1880-telephone-directory\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}