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Archive ID: FIC-0000-001

Switchboard operators at US Steel

Date Created: circa 1960s

Donor: Charlene Banks Cardona

Media Type: Photograph

Backstory:

The South Works facility extended over 600 acres and employed 20,000 workers at its height. It was like a small city, and communications across the different mill buildings and offices that constituted South Works was crucial.

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