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Telephone Operators
Older women working on mechanical voting machines in a 19th-century election room, demonstrating early voting technology and election history.

In the early 1900s, most telephone calls depended on operators to connect the parties. In this circa 1900 photograph, eight South Bend Telephone Company employees tend the switchboard. Donated by Mrs. Myron Puterbaugh.

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