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Kathryn Speidel recounts her fifty-five years working as a telephone operator for the New York Telephone Company beginning in 1927. She discusses the change from connecting callers through a manual switchboard to a key pulsing system, the working conditions at her company, and her thoughts on technological innovations.

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Title
Kathryn D. Speidel oral history interview, 1979 October 23
Creator
Speidel, Kathryn D. (Kathryn Daly), 1908-1996, interviewee
Contributor
Sides, Beth, interviewer
Date (Text)
1979-10-23
Place of Creation
Charlotte, North Carolina
Publisher
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Extent
1 audio file (7:12) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (5 pages : PDF)
Biographical/Historical Note
Kathryn Speidel was a 71-year-old woman at the time of interview, which took place in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born in Arcade, New York in 1908. She was employed as a telephone service assistant at the New York Telephone Company.
Other Identifiers
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:1544
System Control No.
OH-SP0154
Subject (Person)
Speidel, Kathryn D. (Kathryn Daly), 1908-1996
Subject (Corporate)
New York Telephone Company
Subject (Topic)
Telecommunication
Telecommunication--Switching systems
Telephone operators
Geographic Coverage
New York
New York (State)--Buffalo
Subject (Occupation)
Telephone operators
Subject (Date)
1920-1980
Type
Audio
Format
spoken word
Interviews
Oral histories
Language
English
Grant Information
Digitization made possible by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
Usage Statement
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Copyright Holder
This material is protected by copyright. Copyright is held by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Record Appears in
Oral History Collections > Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte
Internet Mime Type
audio/mpeg
Location of Original
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Reproduction Note
MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master file. Interview originally recorded on reel to reel, duplicate audio analog cassette digitized using a Digidesign 003 rack.
2016-05-13

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