In an effort to keep long distance calls going through, supervisors take over the switchboards at the C&P Telephone headquarters at 13th & G Streets NW April 15, 1947 during a nationwide strike by the National Federation of Telephone Workers.

The local affiliate Washington Telephone Traffic Union represented about 3,000 operators scattered at different facilities throughout the city. Service, installation and repair personnel, part of a different affiliate union, also went on strike.

The National Federation of Telephone Workers (NFTW) called the strike of 325,000 workers seeking a nationwide agreement with the Bell System.

The strike crippled long distance service and those phones not equipped with direct dial.

AT&T refused to negotiate a nationwide agreement and only offered a small wage increase after workers had been on strike for three weeks. Four weeks into the strike, 17 local unions had signed local agreements. The nationwide strike collapsed and it marked the end of the NFTW.

However, the Washington operators continued their strike until May 18, 1947, holding out for written guarantees that there would be no reprisals.

The strike, however, succeeded in making the case for a stronger national union, with the Washington traffic union one of those pushing hard.

In June 1947, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) was formed as a national union, incorporating most of the locals of the NFTW, including the D.C. unit. Similarly the union later voted to affiliate with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) with the support of the Washington unit in 1949.

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The photographer is unknown. The image is a Washington Daily News photograph that is part of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.

Vermittlerapparat einer Siemens-Albis ESK 8000 Telekommunikationsanlage

This is found in the Pelee Island Heritage Centre Museum.

Air Conditioned - Switchboard - FREE Television

The motel had already been demolished by the time I found it, but the sign was still standing a few months later.

5058 Switchboard - Georgia Rural Telephone Museum, 135 North Bailey Ave., Leslie, Sumter, GA. April 26, 2011. Decimal degrees: 31.956043, -84.086458

Sept 2013

by Michael Arnzen

gorelets.com

Shot of electrical switchboard in the abandoned Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum --> Satur8 App --> Tangent App --> color adjustments in photoshop

For a gallery of shots taken during my visit to the asylum -- and the poetry reading held with my publisher that afternoon -- visit www.gorelets.com/blog/ambulations/photos-from-the-trans-a...

Margaret Daly stars as 'Operator' in JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 - PARABELLUM.

Inside the Herkimer Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan

One good thing about the night switchboard operator job was that during the week there were few if any calls after about 2:00 am. We would lift the couch up on 3 of the operators chairs and get in a few zzzzz's in between campus police radio checks. All you had to do was roll over and take the occasional calls.

befroe post it notes

The Pay Phone has been hanging on the wall in the hallway for 17 years, and I had the other old phone related parts in a box in the basement. Today I decided to trade them out.

The candlestick phone is from the 1890s through 1920, when it had its last upgrade to a dial phone.

Underneath that, is an office switch board for a 5 phone system from Downey, California from approximately 1925-30, and below that is a 4 line rural switchboard from a very small exchange.

And to ring the bell at the top of the stack, is a magneto at the bottom.

NEX-5N + Samyang 8/3.5 fish-eye

Went to a hotel lobby where they had this vintage phone switchboard.

I wonder if all operators had to end all calls with this message.

The switchboard of Science Hall, now known as Marquette Hall, was the administrative hub of campus.

Following in her mother's footsteps.

Ceilidh Participant

Crown copyright

Marine Scotland 2018

Large On Black

LAST MAGNETO SWITCHBOARD OPERATED IN KANSAS

ROXBURY - JAN. 1977

The stand to the left of the switchoard contained ashes. The cables often became too hot to handle with the heavy gloves and had to be dropped into the ashes until they cooled. There was also a large bucket of sand to throw on the switchboard when it caught fire.

Compliments of the Wayne Baldwin Family

Home Telephone Company, Galva, KS

Museum of Independent Telephony,

Abilene, KS

Not the most artistic shot I have ever taken, but I thought this was an interesting little item on my tour around the former Royal Yacht.

No windows. No sunshine disturbing the technicians.

H.C. Ørsted værket

Full size image available on request.

For absolutely non-commercial purposes - it`s for free.

For semi commercial purposes - it`s cheap.

For business purposes - it`s business.

All rights reserved

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Woman operating the switchboard in 1960. Volunteer mothers ran the campus telephone switchboard for many years.

Those meters are interesting. Never seen 55x with meters. To me, meters suggest billing.

[12:16] Listening Object: Received message: were just about ready Success.

[12:17] Listening Object: Received message: how is it over there? Success.

[12:22] Listening Object: Received message: Hi Victoria. How are you doing today? How is the weather? Success.

....sorry texting takes time from the metaverse to Afrca!.

[12:25] Listening Object: Received message: Hi vitoria my names justin, i just wanted to say Hi and ask, was it hard for you to found out about how your dad died? Success.

[12:27] Listening Object: Received message: Hi Victory, my name is Lee, I wanted to know what I could join to help fight against aids? Success.

[12:30] Listening Object: Received message: My name is alexander9 carver. can i ask how is her countrie reducing the spread of aids? Success.

[12:30] Listening Object: Received message: okay well i hope they find the cure and Thanks! Success.

***Reply from Victoria!: hi,ya it was coz i was very young.my mum told me later.***

[12:32] Listening Object: Received message: how is ur countrie reducing the spread of aids? Success.

***[12:34] Rik GKid: reply from Victoria: " hi,u can donate anything 2 help pple 2 teach others esp de young gen.***

[12:36] Listening Object: Received message: thanks for the response, I will donate as much as I can. Success.

[12:39] Listening Object: Received message: Hi Victoria! My name is also Victoria and I was wondering what you would like to see change in your country to help reduce the spread of HIV? Success.

[12:46] Listening Object: Received message: Thanks from Rik, Shawna, Amd, Victoria, Dnaiel, Justin, Alexander, Lee and DanDan! Good night! Success

One of a series of photographs in the John Fairbairn Anderson Collection, early 1900s.

Switchboard

Telephone Switchboard, the old way

(Photo Location: 99-1950's)

Switchboard

Houston Texas The history of telephonic communication Telephone Museum in The Heights 2011 collection booths switchboards pedestal phones Bell signs

Shows eye-ball indicator switchboard.

Date of original: c1905.

USS Albacore (AGSS-569)

Portsmouth, NH

USS Albacore (AGSS-569) was a unique research submarine that pioneered the American version of the teardrop hull form (sometimes referred to as an "Albacore hull") of modern submarines. The revolutionary design was derived from extensive hydrodynamic and wind tunnel testing, with an emphasis on underwater speed and maneuverability.

Taken during the grand opening of the New York Telephone Co. exchange in Huntington,NY. 1963 photo

A discarded telephone switchboard in the Kelvedon Hatch secret nuclear bunker.

Zoe's (great) Grandma Shirley used to operate switchboards like this one at the Children's Museum of Houston.

Vermittlerapparat M2250 einer Ascom Meridian vom Hotel Atlantis Zürich Aufnahme vom 5. Februar 2011

Appears to be less used and no frequent phone numbers