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Switchboard operator

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Ruby Bales, working as a PBX operator at Children's Mercy Hospital. She's seated in front of a telephone switchboard and has a headphone with...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Young patients undergoing auditory testing

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Young white boy patient seated at a table wearing earphones and a Phonic Ear while playing with a wooden puzzle of circus animals. Another white child...

Date Published
March-29-1973
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection
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  • Gelatin silver prints
  • Headphones

Member of

  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (2)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (2)
  • Snapshots (2)
  • Group portraits (1)
  • Portrait photographs (1)
  • (-) Gelatin silver prints (2)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • 1961-1970 (1)

Subjects

  • Auditory perception in children--Testing (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Jigsaw puzzles (1)
  • Medical instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Physical diagnosis (1)
  • Telephone--Private branch exchanges (1)
  • Telephone operators (1)
  • Telephone switchboards (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Headphones (2)

Subjects, People

  • Bales, Ruby (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1973-03-29 (1)

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