Switchboard Operators
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Photograph of three women operating a telephone switchboard at Multnomah and Clackamas Telephone Company, wearing headsets. Women are Lillian Markwart, Ora Sweek, and Oral "Orie" Sweek. Mounted on brown cardboard backing with decorative border.
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- Description
- Photograph of three women operating a telephone switchboard at Multnomah and Clackamas Telephone Company, wearing headsets. Women are Lillian Markwart, Ora Sweek, and Oral "Orie" Sweek. Mounted on brown cardboard backing with decorative border.
- Provenance
- Found in collections. Ora and Oral Sweek were twin sisters. Multnomah and Clackamas Telephone Company later became West Coast Telephone Company and, in the late 1960s, General Telephone and Electronics Company. The building was located at Main and 1st, between the Ely building and the drugstore.
- Subject
- Markwart, Lillian
- Sweek, Ora
- Sweek, Oral
- Telephone switchboards
- Telephone operators
- Telephone industry
- Women
- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/
- Identifier
- ghs2016-001-0032
- Contributor
- Gresham Historical Society
- Extent
- Print, Photographic
- Type
- StillImage
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
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