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Women using early telephone equipment. Photograph courtesy of Mountain Bell.
Women in the Utah Work Force from Statehood to World War II B Y MIRIAM B. M U R P H Y
O. HARRIS of the Utah Independent Telephone Company visited the Maxfield homestead in Big Cottonwood
I N THE EARLY 1 9 0 0 S CHARLES
Ms. M u r p h y is associate editor of Utah Historical Quarterly. This p a p e r was originally prepared for a lecture series funded in part by the U t a h Endowment for the Humanities.