Western Union Telegraph Girls Taking a Break — 1912
by Paula Bosse
by Paula Bosse
“Beat this if you can.”
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Photo “Group of Printer Department Clerks, Dallas, Texas” from the Western Union Telegraph Company Records, Smithsonian Institution.
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Copyright © 2014 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
Wonderful image of these young Ladies. Thank you. My grandmother, Sarah Tutwiler, was a telegrapher in the Dallas Western Union up to 1917 so it seems possible she could be pictured!. I don’t suppose there were names on the photograph. She happened to have some notoriety for being deaf but she could hear the high range clicks of the telegraph.
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How interesting! I know that a lot of deaf men were employed as linotype operators because the working environment was so loud. I don’t believe anyone in the photo was identified.
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