The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Collection

What happens when you pick up your telephone receiver : subscriber lifts receiver and line lamp lights

A comic strip that explains how the telephone operator connects a call. Accompanies an article about telephone operators.


1913-10-05

19.3 x 12.4 cm

Tribune Company

grayscale

  • English

  • still image
  • text

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  • The Janet A. Ginsburg Chicago Tribune Image Collection

  • Chicago Sunday Tribune (October 5, 1913), Part 7/Special Features, p. 7

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