Telephone switchboard and operators at Lockheed Aircraft
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Title supplied by cataloger. Photograph caption dated August 29, 1955 reads, "$76,702 Month's Phone Bill for Plant. Pauline Helgeson, left of Sunland, switchboard supervisor at Lockheed Aircraft Coporation in Burbank, checks switchboard which connects 3,883 telephone instruments and 187 outside trunk lines through 2,594 phone lines. Lockheed's phone bill last month was $76,702.25. Leadwoman is Maxine Beasley, right of Glendale."
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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