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1910 · rif. 62498 — San Francisco CA & Portland OR: The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. October 1910. 4to. xix 1 210 2 72 47 1 pp. business pages in pink-tinted paper and with early text illustrated ads. With text photo illustrations of women telephone operators and 2 colour-printed inserted ads for Bushong Printers & the forthcoming Yeon Building to be completed in 1911. Gray-brown printed softcovers cover art of PT&T logo front cover original braid hanger still intact minor uniform interior toning couple corners w/ creasing minor scuffing still a VG bright copy w/ ink MS note indicating “Relieved by a new one April 31 1911.” First edition of this exceedingly scarce telephone directory for Portland & Oregon City OR un-incorporated Multnomah & Clackamas Counties as well as Vancouver WA and Clark County in the Progressive Era. Of additional interest is the first inclusion of Salem OR in the PT&T Telephone directory. This exceptional reference not only offers an essential tool in tracking residents in the Portland-Vancouver area at the beginning of the 20th-Century but also lists many of the Chinese-American & Japanese-American residents in Portland’s very small Chinatown as well as businesses including restaurants groceries & laundries. Of note are listings for such notable Chinese-Americans as Seid Gain Back and Seid Gain Back Jr. who at the time were two of the wealthiest businessmen on the West Coast as well as James & Nellie Brown Chinese-American photographers in Portland OR. The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. had been formed from the Pacific States Telephone Co. in 1907 just 3 years before and nearly 30000 more telephones than those just 11 years before. No copies in Worldcat. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., paperback