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22 photos and 2 illustrations tagged operator, from 7 members of Flickr Commons.

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Beulah Faith, 20, used to be sales clerk in department store, reaming tools for transport on lathe machine, Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Heidi Day said:

  So weird to see someone named Beulah who is only 20 years old . . .

• Feeble Marble said:

  What an amazing name!

• Warco said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Lathes, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Female Indian telephone switchboard operator - "Helen of Many Glacier Hotel.", 26 June 1925 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• བཀྲིས། said:

  Sureal capture. I wonder how the First Nations People might perceive it. 👍

• swanq said:

  The hotel is still active, in Glacier National Park -- www.glaciernationalparklodges.com/lodging/many-glacier-ho...

• swanq said:

  Jeanne Moore's research [jeanneamoore.com/whats-in-a-name/] led her to historian Ray Djuff, who argued that it was taken in 1913. He stated that, "Hoke Smith was an editor at the Minneapolis Tribune hired by the Great Northern Railway to work in its advertising and publicity department. It was his task to sell the railway to potential travelers, especially by promoting the newly created Glacier National Park (1910). Combining fact with fiction, he wrote stories that were picked up by the newspapers."

• Jon (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks for the link swanq.

Operating the weaving machines for the production of military uniforms Ipswich

from State Library of Queensland

• Vesna Verencevic said:

  The Queensland Woollen Manufacturing Company is situated in North Ipswich on level land overlooking the Bremer River. It was established in 1875 and the factory was the first woollen manufacturing plant in Queensland. The Second World War saw the woollen mill playing a similar role to that of the First, making blankets and cloth for the armed services. During the war years, the Federal Government declared dismissals forbidden from vital or "protected industries" such as the cloth manufacturing industry; prices and wages were pegged. For the workers, this was a favourable climate to demand improvements. A larger number of females were employed in the mill during the war due to decreased male employment. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland_Woollen_Manufacturing_Co...