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| Title | Woman at switchboard, Seattle, ca. 1922 |
| Photographer | Webster & Stevens |
| Date | ca. 1922 |
| Caption | Today, telephone call connections are made electronically. At first, however, each connection had to be made individually by an operator at a switchboard. This was a popular job for women.
In this photo, taken in the early 1920s, a Seattle telephone operator uses a telephone switchboard to connect people who've called with the people they're calling. |
| Notes | Handwritten on sleeve: Telephone Girls Switchboard Girls.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Telephone switchboards--Washington (State)--Seattle; Telephone operators--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.2720.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | 95450 |
