Telegraphist
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A telegraphist, telegrapher, or telegraph operator is a person who uses a telegraph key to send and receive Morse code messages in a telegraphy system. These messages, also called telegrams, can be tr
Telegrapher, dated before 1927 from the Tropenmuseum collection
Telgraphists of the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, 1919
Women in telegraphy
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Women in telegraphy have been evident since the 1840s. The introduction of practical systems of telegraphy in the 1840s led to the creation of a new occupational category, the telegrapher, telegraphis
Telegraphist
…between a network of interconnected telegraph offices which were staffed by telegraphists. During the telegraph era there was widespread employment of women in telegraphy. The shortage of men to work as telegraph operators in the American Civil War opened up the opportunity for women of a well-paid skilled job. In the…
Miss Ethel Wakefield, a Western Union telegraph PBX operator, pictured in 1943.
The Central Telegraph Office, London, 1874. Source: Illustrated London News, December 12, 1874.
A telegraph operator in the 1940s.