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Recollections of one of Portland's first telephone operators (WPA Federal Writers' Project oral history)

Published: Jan. 29, 2024, 2 p.m.

In March 1938, WPA writer Claire Churchill sat down with Anne Abernethy Starr for an oral-history interview, touching on Abernethy Starr's childhood memories growing up in frontier Portland and working as a draftswoman and as one of Portland's first telephone operators. (Source on Library of Congress Website: https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001932/ )