Telephonist Collection

Telephone operators, between 1914 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Telephone operators, between 1914 and 1917
Telephone operators, between 1914 and 1917. USA. Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator when she was hired in 1878

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. - Telephone Girls, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. - Telephone Girls, 1914. Women telephonists, Washington, DC

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. - Telephone Girls, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. - Telephone Girls, 1914. Women telephonists, Washington, DC

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. - Telephone Girls, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. - Telephone Girls, 1914. Women telephonists, Washington, DC

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. - Telephone Girls, 1914. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. - Telephone Girls, 1914. Women telephonists, Washington, DC

Operator on the Mayfair Exchange, 1932, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Operator on the Mayfair Exchange, 1932, (1933). Telephone exchange operator in Mayfair, central London. From " The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933]

First transatlantic telephone call, from London to New York, 7 March 1926, (1935). Ringing Up " Uncle Sam"...the actual scene at the switchboard when London spoke to America by radio

London-New York Telephone Service, c1930. Creator: Unknown
London-New York Telephone Service, c1930. From " The Wonder Book of Engineering Wonders", edited by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London and Melbourne]

Telephonist, c1914-c1918. French soldiers: the man on the right is from the 33rd Infantry Division. Photograph from a series of glass plate stereoview images depicting scenes from World War I

At the nerve centres of the Service, 1940. From Life in the W.A.A.F. booklet on the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WaF), in Tucks Better Little Book series

Hands the form over her shoulder, 1940. From I m A Firegirl, booklet on the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS), in Tucks Better Little Book series

Telephonists at the Fire Brigade Headquarters, Lambeth, London, 1940
Telephonists at the Fire Brigade Headquarters, Albert Embankment, Vauxhall, London, 1940. Interior of the telephone exchange showing telephonists sitting at the switchboard

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

Inside a New York telephone exchange, USA, early 1930s

Female telephone operators on strike in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1919. One of many strikes that broke out in the United States in 1919

In the Post Office Central Telephone Exchange, City of London, c1903 (1903)
Receiving calls in the Post Office Central Telephone Exchange, City of London, c1903 (1903). The Faraday Building was the General Post Offices first telephone exchange in London

In a Large Telephone Exchange, c1916. Women telephonists working at the Throgmorton Avenue Telephone Exchange in the City of London

The Telephone Exchange, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1886. Wood engraving from Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol I, by Andrew Garran, illustrated under the supervision of Frederic B Schell

Telephone Exchange, Paris, 1904. Women telephonists working while a uniformed boy messenger waits. From Le Petit Journal. (Paris, 17 April 1904)

Female telephonists at the Central Telephone Exchange, Paris, 1890

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