#telephone operators

[mylittlevintageworld]

[stone-cold-groove]

The Telephone in America. Informational booklet provided by American Telephone & Telegraph and The Bell System - 1934.

[todaysdocument]

Photograph of Women Working at a Bell System Telephone Switchboard

Record Group 86: Records of the Women's BureauSeries: Women Working In Industry

This black and white photograph from 1943 shows a wall of telephone equipment.  A line of about two dozen women telephone operators wearing headsets sit before the equipment connecting calls with wires that they plug into various exchange receptacles.  Two other women are standing behind the line of seated women, also working.  One is handing a note to a seated operator while another is talking into a headset.  Small plates with the name of a city on each are placed above the telephone exchanges at regular intervals.  Above the equipment is a sign listing cities in North and South America.

[thatsbelievable]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Macy's switchboard, 1948.

Photo: Nina Leen via art.com

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

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

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Bell Operators, 1970

[asouloflead]

1919, Telephone operators in High River, Alberta, Canada, Spanish flu pandemic