Sujet

Telephone operators, between 1914 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing.

Légende

Telephone operators, between 1914 and 1917. USA. Emma Nutt became the world's first female telephone operator when she was hired in 1878. Young women were expected to be innately polite, compared with men who lacked patience, and indulged in behaviour such as pranks and swearing.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22B06_136

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

216,6Mo (8,7Mo) / 86,5cm x 62,8cm / 10211 x 7413 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people work employment job technology communication communications country telephone occupation headphones photography war telecommunications phone location collection century profession first world war wartime concept negative switchboard telephonist telephonists telecommunication B&W operator gender switchboard operator docility telephone Operator United States of America World War I WWI black & white black and white B W World War One 1910s 20th century American America USA 1st World War Home Front women at work WW1 switchboard attendant working photograph united states 'phone Harris George W. Heritage Art glass negative Martha gender role still image Glass negatives. gmgpc Harris & Ewing collection Harris & Ewing Ewing Harris & Harris & Ewing Inc Harris & Ewing Photographic Studio Harris & Ewing Inc. Martha Ewing Ewing Martha Ewing Newcombe Newcombe Martha Kuntze Kuntze George W. Harris