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Switchboard Operators, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, July 1937.

Switchboard Operators, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, July 1937

Telephone Operators, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, 1915.

Telephone Operators, Washington DC, USA, Harris & Ewing, 1915

Engraved frontispiece showing women telephone operators in a large telephone exchange. The cutaway shows the bundled wired passing out underground....

Central telephone office in the Avenue de lOpéra, Paris, 1886.

This American plug and cord switchboard was made by Jones Bros of Cincinnati, United States and installed in Norway by the Bell Company in 1880. The...

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

This American plug and cord switchboard was made by Jones Bros of Cincinnati, United States and installed in Norway by the Bell Company in 1880. The...

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Engraving from the Illustrated London News, showing two men operating a telephone switchboard.

The Lines Test-Box, 1890s.

This American plug and cord switchboard was made by Jones Bros of Cincinnati, United States and installed in Norway by the Bell Company in 1880. The...

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Introduced dial phones in 1919. Prior to this, the phone user contacted the operator who connected the call. However, this situation became...

Dial telephone, 1929.

Fred Clarke as a switchboard operator, late 1930s. Frederick William Clarke, the younger brother of Arthur C Clarke, is depicted here using a...

Fred Clarke as a switchboard operator.

- 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

Picture Page television magazine programme seen here being broadcast from the BBC studios at Alexandra Palace. January 1939. Our picture Shows:...

Picture Page television magazine programme January 1939

Blind girls operating telephone switchboard

Blind girls operating telephone switchboard

Native American Switchboard Operator; "Helen of Many Glacier Hotel."

Native American Switchboard Operator

The manual telephone exchange in Newcastle, 22nd December 1930.

Newcastle Telephone Exchange, 1930

The switchboard at the Newcastle Telephone Exchange, 24th Januaray 1931.

Newcastle Telephone Exchange, 1931

Visit to the telephone exchange, January 11 Genoa, Italy, 20th century.

Visit to telephone exchange, Genoa

Visit to the telephone exchange, January 11 Genoa, Italy, 20th century.

Visit to telephone exchange, Genoa

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

King and Hutchings office and switchboard

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

Cabinet War Rooms

Switchboard women, ca. 1946.

Switchboard women, ca. 1946.

Lisa Noble reclines on the bonnet of her Chevrolet Stingray car in Hyde Park, London. A former telephone switchboard operator, she was given the...

Motoring - Chevrolet Stingray - London

View of a multi-tasking switchboard operator, Cincinnati, Ohio, ca.1920s. She is doing lacework while handling the influx of phone calls to her...

Switchboard Operator

Standardistes au quartier général de Scotland Yard à Londres, Royaume-Uni circa 1930.

Frank L. Wallace, chief engineer for the Cosmopolitan hotel, shows Miss Irma DeDisre, switchboard operator, the workings of the motel's new fire...

Denver Post Archives

They Answered the Call for Funds Switchboard operators at the Denver Hilton Hotel collected $500 for the fund to aid retarded children. Mrs....

Denver Post Archives

In lobby of Vail Hotel, before going out on street, Chenoweth checks again with Marion Wallace, switchboard operator, to see if there are any more...

Denver Post Archives

Woodrow's switchboard represents an "updating" of the system. It came in 1952 during the oil boom in eastern Colorado. Next-to-Last System That's...

Denver Post Archives

Telephone Operator Pulls a Switch d of sitting all day at a switchboard, Barbara Frasier of 2365 S Meade St., carries a picket sign outside Mountain...

Denver Post Archives

Telephone operator at work at a London switchboard wearing a steel helmet during German air raids.

World War Two - British Empire - The Home Front - Telephone - London - 1940

Line of switchboard operators at work, circa 1925.

Switchboard Operators

The telephone exchange in the Cabinet War Rooms under Whitehall, 1945. The exchange is housed in a reinforced bunker, to protect it from attack...

Cabinet Exchange

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

Police Switchboard

Newspapers, Communications, pic: circa 1955, England, The switchboard of the Daily Mail newspaper in London which can accommodate 22 operators

Newspapers Communications. pic: circa 1955. England. The switchboard of the Daily Mail newspaper in London which can accommodate 22 operators.

Operator Helen Dixon runs the switchboard at Boston City Hall on Mar. 4, 1970.

Switchboard At Boston City Hall

Female workers in the telephone room, New York Stock Exchange, USA, early 1930s.

Female Workers In The Telephone Room New York Stock Exchange USA Early 1930s

High Wycombe, England RAF Bomber Command, Telephone operators of Bomber Command

High Wycombe, England. 1950. RAF Bomber Command. Telephone operators of Bomber Command.

Rock and roll guitarist Frank Zappa wears a black fur coat as he operates a telephone switchboard and talks on the phone at Apostolic Studio - Soho...

Switchboard Operator

View of two operators and their switchboard at CBS studios, May 31, 1949.

The CBS Switchboard

Group of young male telephone switchboard operators work while their manager reviews figures at a desk, early twentieth century.

Telephoen Switchboard

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

businessmen and businesswomen - telephone-switchboard-operator stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Businessmen and Businesswomen

View of a line of switchboard operators, 1920s or 1930s.

Switchboard Operators

Female switchboard operator speaks into a headset while operating a small telephone branch exchange switchboard, 1950. .

Switchboard Operator

The Japanese Minister for Communications Kenzo Adachi seen inspecting a switchboard during a visit to the Tokyo Central Telephone Exchange Office.

Minister Visits Telephone Exchange

Switchboard operator replacing a subscriber's indicator flap in the telephone exchange. Dated 1882.

Switchboard operator.

Male shown operating a Switchboard at a telephone exchange. Used to connect two callers together. Dated 1885.

Switchboard telephone exchange.

The first Chinese American telephone operator in Chinatown works while a child in a school uniform and an adult stand by him. San Francisco,...

First Chinese Amercian Telephone Operator in San Francisco

Episode 20 -- Pictured: Lily Tomlin as Ernistine --

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in - Season 3

Episode 20 -- Pictured: Lily Tomlin as Ernistine --

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in - Season 3

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

Telephone Switchboard Operators, circa 1918.

Telephone Operators Women Occupations

View over the shoulder of a switchboard operator as she takes a message, circa 1925.

Switchboard Operator At Work

Changing Shifts at Telephone Exchange

Changing Shifts at Telephone Exchange

Private branch exchange operator at a switchboard in a Kansas City, Missouri, freight depot. March 1943.

Operating a Switchboard

Woman Working at Switchboard, USA, circa 1935.

Woman Working at Switchboard, USA, circa 1935

Operators at the international switchboard of Faraday House connect a radio broadcast by King George VI to the British Empire via telephone lines. |...

Linking Up the King's Broadcast

Trainee telephone switchboard operators receiving instruction on how to use the apparatus at a Post Office training centre in Clerkenwell.

Trainee Switchboard Girls

Switchboard operators at work at the Kingsway Trunk Exchange situated 100 feet below Holborn in London. The exchange is capable of handling 2 million...

Inside the Kingsway Trunk Exchange

Telephone switchboard operators at work at the municiple telephone offices in Hull.

Telephone Switchboard Operators

National Telephone Company's Telephone Exchange

National Telephone Company's Telephone Exchange

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