Image 1: Chinese telephone operators in 1930s Shanghai, from the Leo Arnoldov’s book, “C
Image 1: Chinese telephone operators in 1930s Shanghai, from the Leo Arnoldov’s book, “China, As It Is” (1933).Image 2: A still from Orson Welles’ 1947 film, “The Lady from Shanghai” where we see when Rita Hayworth’s character, Elsa, makes a phone call and the call goes through inside San Francisco’s Chinatown telephone exchange. Image 3: Harriot Ng at work in the same exchange back in 1929.Image 4: San Francisco’s Chinese Telephone Exchange in 1913. Sources: reelsf.com, Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco, -- source link
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