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| Advertisement | Independent Telephone Company (1904) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Independent Telephone Company |
| Publication Source | Seattle news-letter, Vol. 5 (5), p. 12 |
| Publisher | News-Letter Company |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Publication Date | July 2, 1904
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| Advertisement Text | Get in line on a modern line. Leading a strenuous life is what "Teddy" said about 20th century folk. Make life a little easier by using an Independent Telephone. Simply lift the receiver from the hook, put it to your ear, Central does the rest, without any delay. |
| Contextual Notes | In a speech on April 10, 1899, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt told the crowd: "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife..."
In 1902, the Independent Telephone Company started services in Seattle. In 1912, it was absorbed by the Sunset Telephone Company, which was renamed the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1913.
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| Category | Home economics, household goods and appliances
Commercial and professional services
Transportation and communication |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Telephone companies--Washington (State)--Seattle; Telephones |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0167 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.743 SEN |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
