Former post office and telephone exchange, Cracow, 1980. Slide by Michael Keniger, Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland           

© Michael Keniger and the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Telephone Exchange, Ayr, 1992. Slide by Michael Keniger, Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland.               

© Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Dismantled telephone-wire poles were collected and burned, Chinchilla Shire, 1979. Slide by Neville Sim Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

© Neville Sim and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Standing on a cherry picker, PMG worker cuts redundant telephone wires, Chinchilla Shire, 1979. Slide by Neville Sim Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

© Neville Sim and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Redundant telephone-wire pole is pulled from the ground, Chinchilla Shire, 1979.  Slide by Neville Sim Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

© Neville Sim and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Equipment used for laying telecommunication cable, Darling Downs, 1978. Slide by Neville Sim Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

© Neville Sim and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Operator using the manual telephone exchange, photographed as the auto-exchange was being completed, Talwood, 1965. Slide by Jim McDougall, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

© Jim McDougall and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

The Arrilalah Telephone Exchange, the last telephone exchange in Queensland, 1986. Slide by Doug Rumsey, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland.

© Doug Rumsey and the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Women telephonists in Queensland, who commenced at the Brisbane telephone exchange on 5 June 1899. Collection of the National Archives of Australia

Back row, left to right: Kate Sheldon, Annie Murray, Edith Aulsebrook, Amy Abraham, Edith Hawker, Sarah Gallagher, Alice Hibbert. Front row, left to right: Mary Armstrong, Ada Warburton, Frances Wall, Mrs Dick (Supervisor), Eleanor Ferguson, Annette Bowler, Lil McDonnell

Collection of the National Archives of Australia

Women telephonists at the Brisbane magneto telephone exchange, Elizabeth Street, Brisbane, 1910. Collection of the National Archives of Australia

Collection of the National Archives of Australia

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