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is identified as “our only lady operator” at the Toronto office of the Dominion Telegraph
Company in the Telegrapher, January 16, 1875, 15.
8. “Women as Telegraph Operators,” Electrical World 8 (June 26, 1886): 296.
9. Telegrapher, January 30, 1875, 27.
10. Ella Cheever Thayer, Wired Love (New York: W. J. Johnston, 1880). See also
Gabler, American Telegrapher, 80, 112, 120, 128, 179.
11. “The Peculiarities of Telegraphers in the Early and Later Periods,” Telegrapher,
August 23, 1873, 205.
12. Lida A. Churchill, My Girls (Boston: D. Lothrop and Co., 1882).
13. Operator, October 14, 1882, 437.
14. Telegrapher, January 15, 1876, 13.
15. New York Times, October 11, 1884.
16. Henry James, In the Cage (Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1898).
17. Hall, “O. Delight Smith’s Progressive Era,” 171.
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the Labor Movement
1. Gabler, American Telegrapher, 146–48.
2. Telegrapher, April 18, 1868, 274.
3. Ibid, July 15, 1876, 169.
4. Andrews, “What the Girls Can Do,” 116.
5. Telegrapher, January 22, 1870, 173; Gabler, American Telegrapher, 148–49; Ulriksson,
Telegraphers, 20–28.
6. News Clippings 1869–72, Series 7, Box 35, Folder 5, Western Union Collection;
Chicago Tribune, January 4, 1870.
7. Journal of theTelegraph, May 1, 1869, 134. Telegrapher, September 23, 1876, 234.
8. Telegrapher, January 15, 1870, 168, 165.
9. Ibid., January 22, 1870, 173.
10. Ibid., February 19, 1870, 208; January 29, 1870, 184.
11. Foner, Women and the American Labor Movement, 114, 146; Andrews, “‘What the
Girls Can Do,’” 114.
12. Quoted in Diane Balser, Sisterhood and Solidarity: Feminism and Labor in Modern
Times (Boston: South End Press, 1987), 27.
13. Garland, “Women as Telegraphists,” 251–52.
14. Kieve, Electric Telegraph, 186–87.
15. Foner, Women and the American Labor Movement, 163; Gabler, American Telegrapher,
71–72, 159–63.
16. Chicago Tribune, July 15, 16, 1883.
17. Gabler, American Telegrapher, 6–7; Ulriksson, Telegraphers, 33.
18. Chicago Tribune, July 17, 1883.
19. Ibid., July 18, 1883.
20. Gabler, American Telegrapher, 9.
21. Ibid., 137–40; Chicago Tribune, July 20, 21, 1883.
22. Charlotte (N.C.) Home and Democrat, August 3, 1883; Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer,
August 10, 1883; Concord (N.C.) Register, August 17, 1883.