[Nora E. Wong and Gloria Wong on opening day of the first Chinese answering service in the United States]

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Local identifier: AAB-7163
Title: [Nora E. Wong and Gloria Wong on opening day of the first Chinese answering service in the United States]
Date: 1962 Aug. 16
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: San Francisco News-Call Bulletin
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. S. F. News-Call Bulletin photo by George Place.
Note: Folder: S.F. Districts-Chinatown-Telephone Operators.
Newscopy: "TRAIL BLAZING PHONE SERVICE--Popping firecrackers marked the opening Wednesday of the first Chinese answering service in the U. S., appropriately in Chinatown. Nora E. Wong, on left, owner of the business and wife of businessman Benny Wong, watches Gloria Wong opening the new board. A staff of operators easily handles many Cantonese dialects and one speaks Italian and Spanish as well.".
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Telephone operators--California--San Francisco
Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)
Bibliographic Number: .b10120944
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:127089