Unidentified man with telephone operator – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This rare historic photograph captures Unidentified man with telephone operator in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Unidentified man with telephone operator
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Here a man stands beside a telephone operator, a pairing that reflects how central the switchboard had become to daily business and home life in the early 1900s. The record does not identify either sitter or give a date, so the scene can only be placed within the broader period of the Bain News Service, the New York agency founded by George Grantham Bain that sold news pictures to newspapers from about 1899 into the 1920s. Telephone exchanges of that era were typically staffed by women operators, and images like this one help show the working conditions and the new technology of the period.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| 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 six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 4,871 × 3,347 px · prints to 16 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-29306 |
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