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Small bronze metal directory. On the right side is a gold wheel and in the front is a paper that turns as the wheel turns. On the top of the paper is the alphabe and below is city and station, wave lenght, and dial readings.There are small round black feet on the bottom.
telephone directories
metal
paper (fiber product)
Directory, Telephone
"BATES / INDEX / THE BATES MFG. CO. / ORANGE N.J., USA / PATENTED" (gold lettering)
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" (Black lettering on a gold plate)
"CITY & STATION WAVE LENGTH DIAL READINGS" (Black lettering on a gold back ground)
Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),
Bates
3 x 3 1/2 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation
2006.44.1553.1
New Jersey (United States)
Orange (Essex county, New Jersey)
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