Beautifully engraved Certificate from the Pacific Northwest Bell Company issued in the 1970's. This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of a woman talking on an early push button pay phone. This item has the printed signatures of the company's officers and is over 24 years old. Pacific Northwest Bell Company wasa local operating company that had been a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T. PNB eventually merged with Northwestern Bell and Mountain States Telephone companies to become U S WEST Communications, Inc.