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Title : First female telephonists in Queensland
Commenced at the Brisbane telephone exchange on 5 June 1899

Back row, left to right: Kate Sheldon, Annie Murray, Edith Aulsebrook, Amy Abraham, Edith Hawker, Sarah Gallagher (who replaced Mary Thomas who married), Alice Hibbert.

Front row, left to right: Mary Armstrong, Ada Warburton, Frances Wall, Mrs Dick (Supervisor), Eleanor Ferguson, Annette Bowler (Mrs Taylor), Lil McDonnell 

Date : 1899
Image no. : J2879, QTH159
Barcode : 1974865
Location : Sydney
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Series accession number : J2879/1

Source: National Archives of Australia

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