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

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• SDASM Archives 10 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 8 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 2 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of Queensland 1 photo / illustration
• The Library of Virginia 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Mosque elevator operator

from The Library of Virginia

• Ken Ludwig said:

  Which floor is Allah's office ?

• Justin Waits said:

  I wonder how many of these elevators are around. Some were pretty complicated

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.

A girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers, Long Beach, Calif. Better known as the "Flying Fortress," the B-17F bomber is a later model o

from The Library of Congress

• 10 older comments, and then…
• bunæn said:

  Most likely these aircraft workers were over the age of 18 when the photos were taken. That being the case, it would be more accurate to refer to each of them as a woman rather than as a girl.

• caffeinatedliby said:

  I'd bet a latte that the titles are taken word-for-word from the captions each photo was assigned at the time it was taken (or at the very least, when they were processed into the collection at the LoC). I doubt it'll come as a newsflash to anyone that things were a bit different in 1942 than they are in 2008...

• bunæn said:

  Doh! Of course, you're right!

• DanaLoesch said:

  A real life Rosie the Riveter.

• Pat Strong said:

  The photographer is amazing... each shot is composed like a Vermeer There is that same sense of concentrated purpose, although its clearly very posed. Just lovely.