NW Bell Phone Operators

Photograph

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Waseca County History Center

Name/Title

NW Bell Phone Operators

Entry/Object ID

1.91.79a

Description

Waseca Northwestern Bell Telephone Company exchange operators. 8" x 10" black and white. Group of Waseca Telephone Company exchange operators ten years after the switch to dial phones. "The reason for the gathering was a re-union of all the exchange operators who had worked in Waseca over the years. Over 45 attended the dinner at the King Melody Inn in Waseca." Front row left to right: Patty Schaumkessell Patzner, Romelle Neidt Deef, Marion Tobin Brown, Margie Lewis Deef, Olive Kearney, Martha Wilkowske, Wanda Rossel, Dorothy Willnow Buecksler, Ella Deef, Dorothy Clayton Gunderman, Florence Miller Krause, Lorraine Eiserman Alland, Florentine Donovan Thomson. Second row left to right: Rosemary Bungarden Raymo, Patty Dowery Burdick, Elaine Lynch Brown, Arlene Dowery Atherton Byrne, Ella Eichhorst, Rita Enzenauer Behsmann, Mildred McDonough Harguth, Esther Anderson Meyers, Wilmetta Schlicht Mahler, Loretta Stencel. Third row left to right: Delen Paulson Wendt, Jean Bauman Paschall, Jo Ann Larson Root, Luella Cromer Root, Bonnie Schaumkessel Powell, Eileen Mittelstaedt Allan, Karlene Tobin Klein, Elaine Bartelt, Lois Kormann Draheim, Nancy Riple, Catherine McDermott Dinneen. Back row left to right: Helen Spencer Erlandson, Mary Jane Donovan Gehring (head hidden), Jean Wood Churchill, Rayma Johnston Koechel, Merle Rietfort, Margaret Wynnemer Robinson, Anita Neff Mosher, Eva Blumenshein, Delen Burmeister Spittler, Ardith Hutchens Kohnert, Marie Pulver Nelson, Jennie Papke Powell. (Esther Papke Lalse was there but too late for picture. Elaine Bartelt Hodges killed in car accident by Winona November 27, 1970 (4 months later).)

Context

Waseca Northwestern Bell Telephone Company

Cataloged By

Legacy Photo Import

Made/Created

Date made

Jul 25, 1970

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Photographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Condition

Overall Condition

Fair

Create Date

June 28, 1991

Update Date

September 30, 2025