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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
A6031-6
Date(s)
- 1937 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
ca. 1937. Helen Matthews with telephone operator's equipment, April of 1937, in a promotional photograph for National Want Ad Week. Miss Matthews was an employee of the Tacoma Times advertising department, answering phone calls for the want ads. She was featured in a full page ad in the April 21, 1937 Tacoma Times, extolling the virtues of want ads. (WSHS) (T. Times 4/21/1937, pg. 13)
Telephones--1930-1940; Telephone operators--1930-1940; Matthews, Helen;