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CONTINGENCY OPERATING LOCATION K1, Iraq – Staff Sgt. Thomas Harrelson, a communication specialist from Brigham, Utah, assigned to Company B, 1st Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 1st Advise and Assist Task Force, 1st Infantry Division, from Fort Riley, Kan., explains how to operate a telephone operation switchboard during a lecture, March 10, 2011, at Contingency Operating Location K1, Kirkuk. The class reviewed the operation of the radio system and provided the students the opportunity to use the radio in order to develop their understanding of the communications system.
(U.S. Army photo by Spc. Kandi Huggins 1st AATF PAO, 1st Inf. Div., USD-N)
The early telephone networks required an operator to route incoming calls to their destinations via the switchboard. Messenger boys initially filled these jobs, but women soon replaced them because employers found that women processed the required skills of good interpersonal skills and concentration. It also helped that employers could pay women half or even a quarter of a man's salary.
"Telephone Switchboard" Photographs Envelope, Champaign County Historical Archives, Urbana, Illinois.
Part of the blog post: Telephone history in C-U and the women running the boards
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wakefield, massachusetts
1957
switchboard operator, transitron
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first of many photos from the fireside creative showcase 2009 at Saxon Pub.
this is my view of the show, across the device known as "bayta's lap" or the "switchboard sonography project" or simply "the boxes."
Telephone office, reportedly located on the south side of Eighth Avenue between Willamette and Olive Streets in Eugene, Oregon, ca. 1905. Interior view of telephone operators working at switchboard. Photographer unknown.