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Title	Central Village telephone office, Plainfield.
Place	Plainfield (Conn.)
Topic	Telephone switchboards Telephone operators
Theme	Livelihood Infrastructure
Description	Two women wearing telephone headsets are at the right. A telephone switchboard is at the left. Slips of paper are in pigeonholes at the right of the switchboard. A slip with the weather forecast is posted on a message board above. Other notes are attached with thumbtacks. Notices read: "The voice with / the smile wins" "Number please" "Operators shall not listen / unnecessarily to messages, and / are forbidden to divulge any / information incidentally ob-/tained. / The attention of operators / is called to the fact that the / law makes it an offense punish-/able by a fine or imprison-/ment to violate the secrecy / of telephone communication / (signed) C.S. Doolittle / Supp't Traffic." A list of Danielson telephone numbers is posted at upper left. Inscribed on back: "Central Village Tele Office / 1912."<br>
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. <br>
Date created	1912
Physical format	1 photographic print ; 21 x 26 cm.<br>
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number X.2000.15.44<br>File name 0532 img0100.pcd<br>
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society.
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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