Female Indian telephone switchboard operator - "Helen of Many Glacier Hotel.", 26 June 1925 – Antique Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Female Indian telephone switchboard operator - "Helen of Many Glacier Hotel.", 26 June 1925. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Female Indian telephone switchboard operator - "Helen of Many Glacier Hotel.", 26 June 1925
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A switchboard operator at the Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park, identified in the caption as Helen, stands at the switchboard in this June 26, 1925 negative. The hotel, built by the Great Northern Railway on the park's east side, drew visitors to remote mountain country, and its telephone exchange linked guests and staff across the property. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency, made and distributed the image, and its caption information is unverified, so the operator's name and identity should be treated as the photographer's record rather than confirmed fact.
| Created / published | 1925 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,618 × 4,015 px · prints to 19 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-39471 |
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