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  • Tags: Women's working life

COMM 8.039.tif
Ladies of the Post Office seen here operating at an early telephone exchange when all calls were connected by hand at every intermediate exchange.

COMM 8.038.tif
Ladies of the Post Office seen here sorting telegrams which had been handed in at various counters, and sending them to the appropriate transmission points.

COMM 8.036.tif
Typical telephone operator, circa 1900-1905. National Telephone Company.

COMM 8.035.tif
Women workers in telephone exchange (Holborn Manual Exchange)

PEOP 8.062.tif
A group of postwomen at Barnet. with their bicycles.

PEOP 8.061.tif
A woman wearing the original uniform for postwomen, issued 1915.

COMM 8.034.tif
Women workers in telephone exchange during WWI (London Trunk Exchange)

PEOP 8.040.tif
Dorothy Rowena Cade, founder of the Minack Theatre.

PREVREF 1499 duplicate photo

PEOP 8.039.tif
Rowena Cade working at the Minack Theatre at age 80.

PEOP 8.038.tif
Rowena Cade, pictured at age 80 at the Minack Theatre. This photograph is one of a collection which was used in a London-published magazine feature in 1975, written and illustrated by Richard Angove.
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