Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a male employee with a telephone at the Haas Building Electrified Office, ca.1930. A man in a suit and glasses sits at left, facing the right with a telephone in hand. The device sits on his desk, alongside what appears to be a microphone(?) and stacks of paper. On the wall, a piece of paper bears this sign: "Haas Building Electrified Office 1. Receives your callers 2. Answers your telephones 3. Writes your letters 4. Keeps your books 5 Delivers your messages 6. Keeps out peddlers Through a centralized staff of trained clerical workers at low cost 201 Haas Bldg. Seventh and Broadway".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 22 x 17 cm. photographic prints photographs
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