Scope and Contents TELEPHONE PROJECT Easley, former employee of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company, discusses growing up near Rochester and his employment with the Central Union Telephone Company. He discusses changes in his work through the years, effects of the Depression, union organization in the company, early 20th century Springfield, the 1942 Beardstown flood, and the effects of WWII on the homefront. 1 tape, 90 mins., 27 pp. Interview by Thomas E. Easley, 1973 OPEN See collateral...