Keywords: Switchboard operators
Item 18091
Switchboard operators, Lewiston, ca. 1893
Contributed by: Telephone Museum Date: circa 1893 Location: Lewiston; Ellsworth Media: Photographic print
Item 18051
Switchboard operators, Lewiston, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Telephone Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston; Ellsworth Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC
In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones
"How the switchboard worked was that the operators would take a ticket when a conversation was started. Then they timed the conversation."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4
"There was a large switchboard with digits in which connecting plugs were placed. A light would come on, and the caller would say to whom he wanted to…"
Story
Working as a telephone operator in the 1940s
by Doris Tardy
Working as a telephone operator in 1946 was new and exciting, and challenging.
