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

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

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.

Telephone operator at switchboard c. 1900.

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

Women workers in telephone exchange (Holborn Manual Exchange)

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