Telephone Company Staff Photo
1906-1916
Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Telephone company staff seated and standing in an office with switchboards. Group consists of four women seated and two men standing. Two women, Arlie Gibbs and Winifred Osburn McClure, are wearing headsets with horn-shaped speakers connected to the switchboard. Left to right: Arlie Gibbs (Davidson), Winifred Osburn McClure, Iva Alder (Littlepage), Grace Page, Bill Ekstrom, and Frank Christenson
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- Identifier
- ghs889
- Description
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Telephone company staff seated and standing in an office with switchboards. Group consists of four women seated and two men standing. Two women, Arlie Gibbs and Winifred Osburn McClure, are wearing headsets with horn-shaped speakers connected to the switchboard.
Left to right: Arlie Gibbs (Davidson), Winifred Osburn McClure, Iva Alder (Littlepage), Grace Page, Bill Ekstrom, and Frank Christenson - Rights
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- Location
- Gresham, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
- Date
- 1906-1916
- Names
- Davidson, Arlie (Gibbs)
- McClure, Winifred (Osburn)
- Littlepage, Iva (Alder)
- Page, Grace
- Ekstrom, Bill
- Christenson, Frank
- Subject
- Switchboards
- Telephone companies
- Telephone operators
- Provenance
- Emergency-only telephone service was available in Gresham as early as 1894. In 1906, local businesspeople founded the Multnomah and Clackamas County Mutual Telephone Company, the town's first commercial phone company, headquartered in the Gresham Drug Store building. Customers used 16-party lines, and conversations were limited to five minutes. This photo is likely of the M & C Mutual Telephone Company office in Gresham.
- Type
- StillImage
- Medium
- Print, Photographic
- Item sets
- Gresham Heritage
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