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Telephone Information Service Operators
Telephone Information Service Operators
Telephone Information Service Operators

Telephone Information Service Operators

DateNovember 1953
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions7 9/16 × 9 7/16 in. (19.3 × 24 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Albuquerque National Bank
Object numberPA1980.187.524
DescriptionTelephone operators work in the information service department of Mountain States Telephone Company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Women are wearing headsets and are sitting at small telephone switchboards with large telephone books in front of them. There are wooden desks beside each operator. Two women stand and look over the shoulder of two of the operators. There are windows along the back wall of the room. A wall telephone is above a tall chair near the windows.
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