Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Phone Girls Leave for San Francisco Fair. A group of seven New York telephone girls boarded the "Commodore Vanderbilt" at Grand Central Terminal today bound for San Francisco on a novel mission. With seventeen other young women they have been trained by the New York Telephone Company to operate "Pedro the Voder", the first machine with which speech can actually be created. Left to right - front: Miss Grace E. Anderson, Mrs. Maybelle E. Duffy and Miss Eleanor T. Harnett. Rear row: Miss Dorothea F. Mahoney, Miss Anna Mae R. Swenson, Miss Dorothy T. Whalen and Miss Mary V. Muldoon.
Phone Girls Leave for San Francisco Fair. A group of seven New York telephone girls boarded the "Commodore Vanderbilt" at Grand Central Terminal today bound for San Francisco on a novel mission. With seventeen other young women they have been trained by the New York Telephone Company to operate "Pedro the Voder", the first machine with which speech can actually be created. Left to right - front: Miss Grace E. Anderson, Mrs. Maybelle E. Duffy and Miss Eleanor T. Harnett. Rear row: Miss Dorothea F. Mahoney, Miss Anna Mae R. Swenson, Miss Dorothy T. Whalen and Miss Mary V. Muldoon.
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Phone Girls Leave for San Francisco Fair. A group of seven New York telephone girls boarded the "Commodore Vanderbilt" at Grand Central Terminal today bound for San Francisco on a novel mission. With seventeen other young women they have been trained by the New York Telephone Company to operate "Pedro the Voder", the first machine with which speech can actually be created. Left to right - front: Miss Grace E. Anderson, Mrs. Maybelle E. Duffy and Miss Eleanor T. Harnett. Rear row: Miss Dorothea F. Mahoney, Miss Anna Mae R. Swenson, Miss Dorothy T. Whalen and Miss Mary V. Muldoon.

Wide World Photos, Inc. · [ca. February 1939]

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