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In this modern long distance office, the operators "dial" direct to the called telephone by punching keys. It means faster service on out-of-town...

Women Operating the Switchboard

Operators connecting calls through the switchboard in one of the Continental English speaking sections at the Trunk, Continental and Toll Exchanges...

Telephone Operators

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Female telephone switchboard operator connecting caller, close-up (B&W

Female telephone operator handling New York calls. Undated photograph.

New York Telephone Operator

Operators Working at Switchboard

Operators Working at Switchboard

Telephone operators, between 1914 and 1917. USA. Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator when she was hired in 1878. Young women...

Telephone Operators

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Telephone operator with outdated tele-communication technology (retro) - I

Worker operates the switchboard at the Central Telegraph Station in Electra House, London, the largest telegraph station in the world. The Post...

Telegraph Station

The trunk test switchboard at the Kingsway Trunk Exchange, situated in tunnels below London's Holborn.

Switchboard operators handling non-emergency calls to the police, circa 1950.

Police Switchboard

Man operating the switchboard at the Auxiliary Fire Service control room in London during World War II, UK, October 1940.

Fire Service Control Room

Female operators at the switchboard of the Magneto Exchange of the National Telephone Company, USA.

Female telephonist in the telephone switchboard room of the Vienna Hotel Imperial. About 1965.

Telephonist in hotel

Switchboard operators at the House of Commons telephone switchboard, London, 1st November 1919.

Telephone Exchange

The telephone department of a large film studio, showing women operating a telephone switchboard.

Telephone Department

FEMALE TELEPHONE OPERATOR OPERATING TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD

FEMALE TELEPHONE OPERATOR OPERATING TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD

View of unidentified switchboard operators at a telephone exchange, New York, New York, 1961.

Switchboard Operators

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Outdated Communications Technology

Four operators connect calls while working at a switchboard.

Connecting Call

1930s WOMAN TELEPHONE OPERATOR SITTING AT LARGE MANUAL SWITCHBOARD DIRECTING CALLS

1930s WOMAN TELEPHONE...

Woman at work on a switchboard.

Switchboard Girl

Telephone Operator at Work

Telephone Operator at Work

Switchboard operator at work, circa 1945.

Switchboard Operator

Women switchboard operators at the new telephone exchange at Euston, London.

Telephone Exchange

Telephone operators working with the U.S. Signal Corps work at a switchboard in American military headquarters at St.-Mihiel, France. Gas masks and...

Signal Corps Telephone Operators

1970s WOMAN RECEPTIONIST WORKING AT PBX TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD

1970sMAN RECEPTIONIST...

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BLONDE RECEPTIONIST

Tangled up in wires, a young switchboard operator appears to panic.

An excited telephone operator, ca. 1960.

Inside a New York telephone exchange, USA, early 1930s.

Inside A New York Telephone Exchange USA Early 1930s

Telegraph Switchboard of Pennsylvania Railroad in Telegraph Room, Union Station, Chicago, Illinois, USA, by Jack Delano for Office of War...

Telegraph Switchboard of Pennsylvania Railroad in Telegraph Room, Union Station, Chicago

Young switchboard operators, circa 1910.

Switchboard Operators

Walthamstow Telephone exchange, London, 1910. Female telephonists at the switchboard. On the wall are instructions concerning calls for the fire...

Walthamstow Telephone exchange, London, 1910.

Telephone operator at a switchboard in a freight depot in Kansas City, Missouri.

Telephone Operator

Telephone Operators at Work

Telephone Operators at Work

Paramount film star Peggy Shannon as a telephone switchboard operator in a scene from the film 'The Secret Call', directed by Stuart Walker.

Switchboard Operator

Three switchboard operators at the switchboard in the Grosvenor House Telephone Exchange in London, England, 28th July 1931. The exchange was...

Grosvenor House Telephone Exchange

Women switchboard operators at the Manchester Telephone Exchange.

Telephone Exchange

London, England: British "Hello-girls" ready to "carry on" In case of an air-raid, England will expect every telephone operator to do her duty. These...

Telephone Operators in Gas Masks

The telephone exchange in the Cabinet War Rooms under Whitehall, 1945.

Cabinet War Rooms

Postcard shows switchboard operators at a NW Telephone exchange, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, circa 1910.

NW Telephone Exchange Sioux Falls

Three men operate a telephone exchange in London's Hyde Park during a strike, circa 1915. The exchange has 160 lines which extend all over the park.

Hyde Park Switchboard

To Sit There And Carry On as though nothing was happening outside was not easy', 1941 . G.P.O and Control Centre telephonists were called upon to do...

To Sit There And Carry On as though nothing was happening outside was not easy, 1941 (1942)

Female CDC telephone operator seated at a switchboard, and wearing a traditional headset, reaching for a telephone patch cable, 1974. Image courtesy...

CDC Telephone Operator

Telephone operators at work at the new switchboard in the Carter Lane Trunk Exchange. Because of the new facilities subscribers can now make trunk...

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Bell Telephone Exchange, Montreal

View of telephone operators at the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania switchboard exchange, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1945.

Bell Telephone Switchboard Operators

Switchboard operator of the first transatlantic telephone call, between London and New York, 1926

Switchboard operator of the first transatlantic telephone call

Illustration of Telephone Operators

Illustration of Telephone Operators

Illustration of Telephone Operators in Paris

Illustration of Telephone Operators in Paris