Operators Grace Miller and Theresa Vincent in 1959 manning the switchboard at Los Angeles' Air Pollution Control District office

Item Overview

Title: Operators Grace Miller and Theresa Vincent in 1959 manning the switchboard at Los Angeles' Air Pollution Control District office
Photographer: Martin, Bob
Date Created: January 9, 1959
Date: 1959-01-09
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Caption: SMOGVILLE'S suffering citizens keep the switchboard flashing at Air Pollution Control District headquarters on days when the ozone's a dirty gray. Veteran APCD operators Grace Miller (l) and Theresa Vincent gag it up for the photographer, but sometimes the calls they receive are no laughing matter. Smog bothers them, too.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 10 x 12.5 cm.
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Names: Los Angeles County (Calif.). Air Pollution Control District
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)--Officials and employees
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Community health services--Utilization--California--Los Angeles County
Telephone operators--California--Los Angeles County
Smog--California--Los Angeles County
Business
Media
Air--Pollution--California--Los Angeles County

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b371_114571
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002p2b8
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