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What can you find in 1.7 million phone book images?

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The Digital Content Management Section (DCM) is excited to announce the release of over 1.7 million images scanned from the Library of Congress U.S. Telephone Directory Collection. These images originate from thousands of reels of black and white microfilm held in the Main Reading Room – now available on the Library’s website.

The process for getting this collection online required a fair amount of metadata wrangling, as the only metadata previously available online for this collection was in the