Switchboard operator Louise Hackmeister arrives in Los Angeles with Mary and Geraldine Eben, Los Angeles, 1935

Item Overview

Title

Switchboard operator Louise Hackmeister arrives in Los Angeles with Mary and Geraldine Eben, Los Angeles, 1935

Date Created

September 4, 1935

Date

1935-09-04

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

The two young women, secretary and phone operating staff to the President and First Lady, as well as Miss Eben's mother, are visiting Los Angeles and will eventually return to Washington by way of the Panama Canal.
Photograph appears with the article, "White House Phone Girl Pays Los Angeles Visit," Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug 1935: 5.
The three women stand beside the train tracks in hats and gloves.

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Miss Louise Hackmeister, chief operator of President Roosevelt's personal telephone switchboard, center, is shown on her arrival here yesterday with Miss Geraldine Eben, left, and the latter's mother, Mrs. Mary Eben. Mrs. Eben is secretary to Mrs. Roosevelt.
Handwritten on negative: 130 130 Gertrude Eben Miss Louise Hackmeister Mrs. Mary Eben
Text from negative sleeve: 1904 - Geraldine Eben Louise Hackmeister x Mrs. Mary Eben White House Tel. Operator 8/28/35 [stamped:] Sep 4- 1935

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Eben, Geraldine
Hackmeister, Louise
Eben, Mary

Location

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Mothers--California--Los Angeles
Telephone operators--California--Los Angeles
Railroads--California--Los Angeles
Arrivals & departures--American--California--Los Angeles
Travel--California--Los Angeles
Daughters--American--California--Los Angeles