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Title: Long distance operator
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1957
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Mrs. Melda Somers, pictured, takes long distance call for Dallas on her switchboard, one of 150 she handles each day. Photograph dated November 22, 1957.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00095979
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 102.
CARL0005060501
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33339
Subject: Long distance telephone service--California--Los Angeles
Telephone operators--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Telephone switchboards
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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