Collection search - Long-distance switchboard at Bell Telephone Co.

Since the development of the telephone switchboard, telephone operators have worked in close proximity to one another. Given that these operators are often all talking at once, their ability to concentrate on the client at the other end of the mouthpiece is an important job skill. Despite technological advances in the century, switchboard operators still play an important role in the communications industry.
"Bell Telephone Co. operators at long-distance switchboard, Ottawa, Ontario" (Caption title, Canadian History Hall)

A reproduction of this photograph was made for Canadian History Hall, 2017.07.01

Exhibition Title: On the Job. Curator: Eleanor Brown; National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 2000.06.05 - 2001.01.07

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