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373 Telephone Switchboard Operator Vintage Stock Photos and High-res Pictures

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Female telephone switchboard operators training, rear view (B&W)

Woman at work on a switchboard.

Switchboard Girl

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Telephone operator using antique switchboard

Switchboard operator at work, circa 1945.

Switchboard Operator

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WOMAN OPERATES A LARGE SWITCHBOARD

Female telephone operator handling New York calls. Undated photograph.

New York Telephone Operator

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Old Cord Switchboard Operator Customer Service Respresentative

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

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Old Cord Switchboard Operator

1970s WOMAN RECEPTIONIST WORKING AT PBX TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD

1970sMAN RECEPTIONIST...

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Surprized Operator

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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Old Cord Switchboard

New service introduced at Holborn telepone exchange, London, for the Post Office being demonstrated by switchboard operators, right to left, Rosemary...

Weather Service

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Operators Working the White House Switchboard

Telephone operator with headphones and a mouthpiece at a switchboard.

Telephone Operator

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Vintage Telephone Switchboard

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

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Outdated Communications Technology

Women switchboard operators at the Manchester Telephone Exchange.

Telephone Exchange

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Telephone operator with outdated tele-communication technology (retro) - I

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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Old switchboard in industrial setting

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

Telegraph Station

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green mediation

The Shell organisation's newly installed telephone switchboard controls the largest private telephone network in the United Kingdom. Sited at Shell's...

Telephone Operators

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Telephone operator with outdated tele-communication technology - III

The automatic telephone exchange in the telecommunications rooms at the New Scotland Yard building on Broadway, Victoria, London, 13th February 1967....

New Scotland Yard Telephone Exchange

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

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Post Office 'hello girls' at school at the Clerkenwell telephone exchange receiving theoretical instruction on a demonstration switchboard.

Hello Girls School

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

Cabinet War Rooms

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Four female cipher and switchboard operators who are the only members of the Auxiliary Territorial Services working at Allied Airborne headquarters....

Switchboard operator at work in east London, circa 1970.

Switchboard Operator

London-New York Telephone Service', circa 1930. From "The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co., Limited,...

London-New York Telephone Service

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

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

Eve Salmon controls a two way radio switchboard alerting taxi drivers in Southampton to the next call.

Switchboard operator E Polworth at work in the Faraday Building in Queen Victoria Street, London. The Inland Trunk, Toll and Continental Exchanges...

British telephone switchboard operators at work.

Phone Switchboard

Telephonist sits at her switchboard in a London office with improvised gas lighting as a result of a government order controlling the use of...

Telephonists at a Covent Garden telephone exchange answer calls from fans of Ringo Starr who are calling to inquire about his recent tonsil...

Ringo's Operation

Women operate the telephone switchboard in Hull. Hull has the only surviving municipal telephone system from those set up in Britain around 1935....

British telephone operator Elsie Barringer, wearing a hands-free headset, at the Holborn Exchange, London, England, 5th November 1932. Barringer has...

London's Prettiest Telephone Operator

King and Hutchings office and switchboard, 1st October 1958.

King and Hutchings office and switchboard

Aylesbury Police Headquarters, Buckinghamshire, inside Police HQ Control Room as manhunt for the Great Mail Gang continues, Monday 12th August 1963;...

Great Train Robbery 1963

They phone Miss Fone. Miss V Fone, quite rightly, is a switchboard operator at Commercial Structures, Ltd. Leyton. 24th October 1935.

Telephonist in the Daily Express building.

Manning The Phones

Switchboard operators in the Cabinet War Rooms beneath Whitehall in London, 1945.

Cabinet War Rooms

Tony Cahil and Steve Wright of pop group The Easybeats with a switchboard operator at the International Telephone Exchange, Faraday House, London,...

Calling Australia

Telephonists at the Fire Brigade Headquarters, Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, London, 1940. Interior of the telephone exchange showing telephonists...

Telephonists At The Fire Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth, London, 1940. Artist: Unknown.

School for telephone operators at Russell Street in Covent Garden, where they are taught to respond cheerfully and smile as they work.

Smiling Operators

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

Fire Service Control Room

- Pupils receiving instructions on the operation of the switchboard at the school for telephone operators at Telephone House, Newcastle. 6th March...

Telephonist school Newcastle 1937

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Antique image: telephone switchboard operator

Operators at the automatic telephone exchange in the telecommunications rooms at the New Scotland Yard building on Broadway, Victoria, London, 9th...

New Scotland Yard Telephone Exchange

First transatlantic telephone call, from London to New York, 7 March 1926, . 'Ringing Up "Uncle Sam"..the actual scene at the switchboard when London...

First Transatlantic Telephone Call

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