#telephone operator

[jojadoja1]

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (C&P Telephone) Photograph Collection. 1954

[electronicsquid]

Telephone operators at the Aberdeen proving grounds, Aberdeen, Maryland

(John Vachon. 1941)

[redarmyscreaming]

Miss E.F. Sawyer. She is credited with being the first female telegrapher hired by a railroad in 1872. She worked for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in the Montgomery, IL office.

[chaoticdesertdweller]

[misforgotten2]

Switch broad. I mean board, switch board.

People Weekly   October   28th 1974

[mostlysignssomeportents]

I am Very Bad At Visual Art, but godDAMN I find making these silly collages soothing and fun.

From “End to End.”

[Image ID: A room full of telephone operators at a switchboard; their heads have been replaced with hacker-in-a-hoodie heads. On the wall behind them is a poster ad for Facebook with the slogan, 'Find Your Facebook Group.' Atop the switchboard stands a small elephant with a bite taken out of its back.]

Felix Andrews/CC BY-SA 3.0 (modified)

[100yearoldcomics]

May 1, 1922 Krazy Kat by George Herriman

[ID: Krazy stands on a box by his dining room table, talking on the telephone. /end] Krazy: Helloi, Centrills, helloi. Gimme a numba. Central: What number do you want?

[ID: Krazy leans on the tabletop. Ignatz walks into the room, shocked. /end] Krazy: I wunt numba "89898 Beezwine."

[ID: Krazy sets the earpiece on his head as they talk with Ignatz. /end] Ignatz: Who are you calling? Krazy: Mrs. "Kwakk Wakk."

[ID: Krazy sets the earpiece atop the mouthpiece and leans back casually. /end] Ignatz: But you've asked for the wrong number, "fool." Krazy: Sure, I did.

[ID: Krazy puts the earpiece on his left foot. /end] Krazy: Now, maybe I'll get the right one.

[ID: Ignatz ZIPs a brick at the back of Krazy's head. The earpiece lies on the tabletop beside the mouthpiece. /end] Ignatz: You'll never have any trouble about getting the right "brick." Mrs. Kwakk Wakk: Hello. Hello. Hello.