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Karl hoefle was awarded the texas southwestern bell yellowpages contract between 1957 1974. Order printed phone books or change how many you receive. In july of 2001, our collection of past texas telephone directories merged with those at the center for american history. Jul, 2014 city of dallas librarian ari wilkins put the display together after falling under the spell of the covers while looking through the librarys collection of old phone books. Our phone book of names, phone numbers and addresses will help you locate anyone, anywhere. See more ideas about vintage book covers, beautiful book covers and antique books. Each one would turn your precious smartphone into a small book of wisdom which, in fact, every smartphone is. Karl did illustrations for the cover of the dallas yellow pages in the 1970s. The old nevada bell phone book covers for many years nevada bell chose the work of a local artist each year to use on the coming years telephone book. Appears to be a lot of freeways and a lot of train tracks with. Whitepages provides the top free people search and tenant screening tool online with contact information for over 250 million people including cell phone numbers and complete background check data. Whitepages official site find people, phone numbers. When searching on its important to find copies that match the book in your possession as accurately as possible. City directories on microfilm or microfiche and selected telephone books and county directories on microfilm are filed in cabinets in the 7th floor microforms area.
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