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[Telephone operator at post, new quotation system, New York Stock Exchange] – Historic Reproduction

[Telephone operator at post, new quotation system, New York Stock Exchange], c1928. — historic photograph
[Telephone operator at post, new quotation system, New York Stock Exchange], c1928.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A telephone operator works at her post in this c1928 view of the New York Stock Exchange, part of a newly introduced system for relaying price quotations. In the late 1920s, the trading floor depended on telephone and ticker lines that carried orders from brokerage offices and sent prices back out, so the operator was one link in a fast-moving chain. The picture carries the Exchange's own copyright notice, which suggests the institution wanted to show the public its modern methods. The market crashed in October 1929, so scenes like this one document a busy, technology-driven trading room just before the collapse.

Created / publishedc1928.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic prints 1920-1930.
NotesCopyright by New York Stock Exchange.
SubjectsNew York Stock Exchange--Facilities--1920-1930. Telephone operators--1920-1930. Stock exchanges--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,272 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180822

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