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Intimate portrait of two women kissing. They are holding hands and wear matching rings.

Intimate portrait of two women holding hands. The hands in focus and smiling faces blurred. Written on the back (not by Serena) "Passed for publication in The Ladder". Cynthia M.B. Reid, Juliet Switsus". There is a duplicate of this image (SWA.375ii)

A candid portrait of Esme Langley possibly for publication in The Ladder

Image of two women resting in bed. One is sleeping and one looks drowsily at the camera. A duplicate print is in the same box (SWA.379ii)

Women workers in telephone exchange during WWI (London Trunk Exchange)

A group of postwomen at Barnet. with their bicycles.

Women workers in telephone exchange (Holborn Manual Exchange)

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

Telephone operator at switchboard c. 1900.

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.

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

A group of 'bal maidens' at Dolcoath who helped to "dress" or prepare the ores for crushing by the mills or stamps. Large numbers of women were employed in this way on all Cornish mines in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. In fact, during the…

Telephone Operators at Manual Switchboard. Date may be later than 1920 - may be late '20s.