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New York City Telephone Exchange 1914

By: Ccclaw
18-May-12

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In 1914, before she was married, my grandmother was a telephone operator at the New York City Telephone Exchange, Pennsylvania Station. The photos I have are grainy with torn corners. I restored them as best as I could. The top photo shows my grandmother (arrow) working the switchboard and the bottom shows her (arrow) in the break room. It looks like the women had to be monitored at all times, even in the break room.

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	By GentlewoodFarms 15-Sep-12 Oh wow! This is a TREASURE collection of photos! How LUCKY you are to have them. And how wonderful that Graphic 45 knew just the paper you needed to scrap them up! Lucky lucky YOU!

	By Anda11 08-Sep-12 so cool love the photo of your grandma

	By Dsatter 22-May-12 ABSOLUTELY AWESOME lo!! Trust G45 to even have pages of the first telephone operators!! You used them beautifully to showcase the photos of your grandmother!! xox

	By SheilaMarie 21-May-12 Great that you have this pics! The pps are ment for them!

	By Mmlsweet 21-May-12 yeah I bet those telephone operators were an unruly bunch ahhahahahahah wowwwwwwwwwwwwww fabulous photos.. I just love it.. way cool how you used the arrow to point the way.. love it fave! great great papers

	By Ozzyvik 21-May-12 How fantastic!! Once again, perfect pps!! Looks great :)