Image / Pacific Telephone Company Switchboard, Orange, California, 1910

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Title: Pacific Telephone Company Switchboard, Orange, California, 1910
Date Created and/or Issued: 1910
Publication Information: Orange Public Library
Contributing Institution: Orange Public Library and History Center
Collection: Orange Public Library Local History Collection
Rights Information: For information on copyrights and permissions, please contact Orange Public Library, Orange, California.
Description: Three young women working on the switchboard at Sunset Telephone Company (absorbed in 1915 by the Pacific Telephone Company) located at, 124 South Orange Street, Orange, California, located in the back of Watson's Drug Store (118 East Chapman Avenue). A.L. Tomblin stands in the back, observing the operation. The operators, left to right, are: Elsie Clough, Jessie Warner, Beatrice Dyer. Etched glass window in background reads (in reverse) "PUBLIC STATION / LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE.".
Photographic print
B&w
12.6 x 17.7 cm.
Type: image
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt4j49p5j1
OPL1802
10512458
Language: English
Subject: Telephone switchboards
Sunset Telephone Company--Orange (Calif.)
Tomblin, A. L
Clough, Elsie
Warner, Jessie
Dyer, Beatrice

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