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1950 Switchboard Stock Photos

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female telephone switchboard operators training, rear view (b&w) - 1950 switchboard stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Female telephone switchboard operators training, rear view (B&W)

Archival, Switchboard Operator, Telephone Switchboard

two women wearing headsets, working on telephone switchboard. (photo by h. armstrong roberts/retrofile/getty images) - 1950 switchboard stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Two women wearing headsets, working on telephone switchboard. (Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images)

Switchboard Operator, Telephone Switchboard, 1950-1959

two female switchboard operators connecting international calls (b&w) - 1950 switchboard stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Two female switchboard operators connecting international calls (B&W)

Switchboard Operator, Archival, Telephone Switchboard

vintage phone secretary - 1950 switchboard stock illustrations

vintage phone secretary

Retro Style, Old-fashioned, Office

Operators connecting calls through the switchboard in one of the Continental English speaking sections at the Trunk, Continental and Toll Exchanges...

Telephone Operators

Customer Service Representative, Switchboard Operator, Archival

Circa 1950, The switchboard of a police department, where all calls other than emergency ones are handled.

King and Hutchings office and switchboard, 1st October 1958.

King and Hutchings office and switchboard

Secretary, 1950-1959, UK

Three telephone operators connect and route calls from their modern switchboard in mid-century Chicago.

Telephone switchboard in Chicago, ca. 1949.

1950-1959, Telephone, Telephone Switchboard

Blackwater, Missouri, Mid Missouri museum of Independent Telephone Pioneers. Rotary telephone by Northern Electric, 1945.

Rotary telephone by Northern Electric, 1945

Worker operates the switchboard at the Central Telegraph Station in Electra House, London, the largest telegraph station in the world. The Post...

Telegraph Station

Telephone Switchboard, Telephone Exchange, Archival

British telephone switchboard operators at work.

Phone Switchboard

Young blonde haired woman wearing a headset with a microphone piece wrapped around her neck as she works in old telephone switchboard.

Young woman working a telephone switchboard

Switchboard operators, wearing headsets, in the telephone exchange of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, circa 1955.

Addis Ababa Telephone Exchange

Telephone Switchboard, Bluetooth

Photograph of a woman operating a telephone switchboard, taken by Photographic Advertising Limited in 1954. Photographic Advertising Limited, founded...

Switchboard operator, 1954.

Customer Service Representative, Women, Telephone

View of operators in the Muzak Master Control Room, New York, New York, 1950. They monitor background music programs and make adjustments via lines...

In The Muzak Control Room

Switchboard operators handling non-emergency calls to the police, circa 1950.

Police Switchboard

Switchboard Operator, Archival, Police Force

1950s SMILING WOMAN OFFICE TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR LOOKING AT CAMERA

1950s SMILING WOMAN OFFICE...

Customer Service Representative, 1950-1959, Working

1950s WOMAN OFFICE TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD RECEPTIONIST OPERATOR WEARING HEADSET ANSWERING TRANSFERRING CALL

1950s WOMAN OFFICE...

Customer Service Representative, Telephone, 1950-1959

Telephone Switchboard at the General Electric Company

Telephone Switchboard at the General Electric Company

Telephone Switchboard

Blackwater, Missouri, Mid Missouri museum of Independent Telephone Pioneers. Selection of old rotary phones and switchboards in the museum.

Selection of old rotary phones and switchboards in the museum

Photo shows women working on the large switchboard at the Pentagon telephone exchange in Arlington, VA.

Women Working at Massive Switchboard

Telephone, 1950-1959, Working

Telephone exchange at Cadley Hall, London, March 1951. Women telephonists at the switchboard.

Telephone exchange at Cadley Hall, London, March 1951.

Customer Service Representative, Telephone Exchange, UK

Telephone switchboard, 1956.

Telephone switchboard, 1956.

Customer Service Representative, Telephone Switchboard

Sylvia Jenkins at work in the Mayfair telephone exchange, London, after winning the title of 'Miss Mayfair'.

Switchboard Beauty

Women, Telephone, Only Women

Women operate the telephone switchboard in Hull. Hull has the only surviving municipal telephone system from those set up in Britain around 1935....

Kingston upon Hull

Telephone exchange. A man sits at a manual switchboard. All incoming and outgoing calls must be connected and he does this by connecting the cord and...

A telephone exchange. A man sits at a manual switchboard. All incoming and outgoing calls must be conn...

Archival, Telephone Switchboard

Telephony in the 1950s. Two women working at a telephone switchboard as it's operator. A telephone communication system that was manually operated...

Telephony in the 1950s. Two women working at a telephone switchboard as it's operator. A telephone com...

1950s office clerk and telephone switchboard operator. A young office worker is sitting at her desk handling documents. A telephone operator is...

1950s office clerk and telephone switchboard operator. A young office worker is sitting at her desk ha...

Senior woman wearing headset working a telephone switchboard.

Woman worker at a telephone switchboard

Man wearing bib overalls and a flat cap looks at the dials as he inspects a switchboard for the distribution of electrical supplies, United States,...

Switchboard Operator

View of switchboard operators at work in the US Capitol telephone exchange, Washington DC, January 27, 1959. At the time, an average of 50,000 calls...

US Capitol Switchboard Operators

Switchboard Operator, Telephone Switchboard, Archival

phone operator with headset - 1950 switchboard stock illustrations

Phone Operator with Headset

Retro Style, Headphones, Cartoon

1950s-1960s computer illustration - 1950 switchboard stock illustrations

1950s-1960s Computer Illustration

1960-1969, Computer, Supercomputer

Switchboard training at at&t, circa 1954, USA.

Switchboard Training at AT&T

Switchboard training at at&t, circa 1954, USA.

Switchboard Training at AT&T

Switchboard training at at&t, circa 1954, USA.

Switchboard Training at AT&T

Switchboard training at at&t, circa 1954, USA.

Switchboard Training at AT&T

Switchboard training at at&t, circa 1954, USA.

Switchboard Training at AT&T

Switchboard training at at&t, circa 1954, USA.

Switchboard Training at AT&T

Switchboard training at at&t, circa 1954, USA.

Switchboard Training at AT&T

Switchboard training at at&t, circa 1954, USA.

Switchboard Training at AT&T

Operating a switchboard, 1951. Women switchboard operators at the British Railways North Eastern Region Headquarters telephone exchange in York....

Operating a switchboard, 1951.

Mrs Norma Whitehouse aged 25, telephonist at Kumficar. Halifax in West Yorkshire. June 1959.

Customer Service Representative, Working, Women

Ruth Dearborn of Amesville answers calls about Hurricane Carol at the switchboard of the Weather Bureau at Logan Airport in Boston on Aug. 10, 1955.

Weather Bureau At Logan Airport

The dazzling fountain shows through the window of control tower at pavilion as Cloude Lester demonstrates the electric switchboard which controls...

Denver Post Archives

Bagno and Mrs. Jackson examine the main switchboard in the office of the Denver Burglar Alarm company, 422 Twenty-first street. All alarms are to be...

Denver Post Archives

Samuel Bagno of New city, inventor of the ***** burglar alarm system; Mrs. Sara Jackson, president of he Denver Burglar Alarm company at 422...

Denver Post Archives

Lamps cast a soft glow over the handsome interior of the governor's reception room in his newly remodeled office Suite at the Colorado Statehouse....

Denver Post Archives

From Bottom to top Answering the phone is a familiar job to Gayle Woods. She started as a switchboard operator in the securities business, then...

Denver Post Archives

Every available hand was thrown into the election front Tuesday at The Denver Post to answer telephone calls from frantic would-be voters seeking...

Denver Post Archives

Queen Elizabeth II at work, seated at her desk in Buckingham Palace, London. The Queen is seen opening one of the 'boxes' in which documents and...

Royalty - The Queen at Work - Buckingham Palace

Elizabeth II, Working, Desk

Circa 1950, The switchboard of a police department, where all calls other than emergency ones are handled.

An detail view of an old telephone switch box in the basement in the United Nations building on May 29, 2008 in New York. The building is going...

United Nations One Billion Dollar Renovation

Guardsman patrols the road in front of Clarence House, Prince Elizabeth's London home. Just after the Princess returned from Epsom, Miss Joan Miles,...

Military - Guardsman - Clarence House

Volume 2, Page 111, Pic 8, Line of men on telephones, updating on construction work in New York, 5th June 1959

Volume 2 Page 111. Pic 8. Line of men on telephones, updating on construction work in New York. 5th June 1959.

Newspapers, Communications, pic: circa 1955, England, The switchboard of the Daily Mail newspaper in London which can accommodate 22 operators

Newspapers Communications. pic: circa 1955. England. The switchboard of the Daily Mail newspaper in London which can accommodate 22 operators.

Switchboard Operator, Telephone Switchboard

London Airport, 9th June 1955, The management control room where all arrivals and departures of passengers is controlled and monitored

London Airport. 9th June 1955. The management control room where all arrivals and departures of passengers is controlled and monitored.

High Wycombe, England RAF Bomber Command, Telephone operators of Bomber Command

High Wycombe, England. 1950. RAF Bomber Command. Telephone operators of Bomber Command.

England Actress Dora Bryan is pictured working in the hotel which is run by her mother, her husband and herself

England. 1956. Actress Dora Bryan is pictured working in the hotel which is run by her mother, her husband and herself.

Female switchboard operator speaks into a headset while operating a small telephone branch exchange switchboard, 1950. .

Switchboard Operator

Switchboard Operator, Telephone, Telephone Switchboard