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My sisters telegraphic
women in the telegraph office, 1846-1950
By Jepsen, Thomas C.
- ISBN
- 978-0-82141-344-9
- Publisher
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2000
Female telegraphers tended to be young, single, highly literate, native-born women who were attracted to the relatively clean working environment and the opportunity of upward social mobility. This exploration of women in telegraphy expands on Edwin Gabler's The American Telegrapher: A Social History, 1860-1900 (1988) by several decades and focuses more ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
