Title

Interior of the Chinese telephone exchange, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA, 1932. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Interior of the Chinese telephone exchange, Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA, 1932. Vintage linen postcard showing the interior of the telephone exchange were women sit at switchboards and another woman stands in the foreground. The interior is Chinese in style. Established by immigrants in the 1840s, San Francisco's Chinatown is the largest in North America and is one of the biggest Chinese communities outside Asia.
Curt Teich Postcard Archives

Date

Nov 30, 1999

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Curt Teich Postcard Archives

Reference

HRM19D81_267

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,3Mb (2,6Mb) / 13,6in x 8,6in / 4094 x 2588 (300dpi)

Keywords

California building buildings female women woman people interior indoors working work communications sitting worker country telephone San Francisco China Chinese color colour Chinatown chair telecommunications phone location century inside thirties furniture lady concept switchboard telecommunication seated telephone Operator United States of America United States 1930s 20th century workers American America USA telephone exchange TGN photograph postcard Yerba Buena Curt Teich Postcard Archives Unknown 'phone photograph postcard