大象传媒

Gallery

A gallery of women at work and leisure at the 大象传媒 from the 1930s to the 1960s

Image: Christine Eade, the 大象传媒's first woman correspondent in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, in April 1973. 

Six seated women smile at the camera. They are wearing dresses with extravagant halo-like headdresses.
Amateur Dramatics Society, Dick Whittington, 1930
Women telephone operators seated at their equipment, which have large fixed microphones. All wear dresses, many with pearls.
大象传媒 Wales Telephone Exchange, 1968
A 1930s canteen. All of the people in the canteen are women.
Broadcasting House staff restaurant, 1932
A slightly staged photo inside a library - one woman is on a telephone, the others study books studiously.
Bush House Library, 1947
A woman adjusts the dress of another seated woman. All wear very brightly coloured floral dresses. The set is chintzy Victorian in design.
Training Course for Colour TV, 1967
A woman at a film editing station reviews the footage.
Film Library, Brentford, 1969
Florence Milnes writes a note at her very tidy desk.
Florence Milnes, 大象传媒 Librarian, 1932
Long rows of women typists at their workstations.
General Office, Broadcasting House, 1934
A strikingly angled image of a woman wearing headphones transcribing a telephone call on her typewriter.
Home Service Department typist, 1939
A woman standing discusses a script with three seated men. A lozenge shaped 大象传媒 microphone hangs from the ceiling.
Mary Adams, Producer, Transatlantic Quiz, 1944
A school photo-style picture of a netball team - 21 women in three rows. All wear white shirts with ties.
Netball team, 1939
An industrious scene - 11 women and a 1 teenage boy sort the post at two large tables. Sacks of mail await on the floor.
Opening the post, Broadcasting House, 1939
A woman on the telephone is shown a letter by another. Her desk is full of newspapers and books.
Radio Times staff, 1950
Two men and two women gathered around a microphone with scripts in hand.
Rhoda Power history lesson, with Mary Somerville, 1931
Three women aiming rifles at a rifle range.
大象传媒 Club, the Rifle Range, 1939
Sallie Clarke smiles at the camera, having won the competition.
Sallie Clarke, Miss 大象传媒, 1969
Eight women gathered around the male singer Sasha Distel
大象传媒 Wales Newsroom staff, with the French singer Sasha Distel, 1960s
Two women at the gramophone, one supervising, the other operating the machine.
Mrs Laryea and Miss Tamakloe prepare sound effects at the Staff Training School, 1954
Two women being measured by wardrobe staff with tape measures. The women being dressed has a very 1960s beehive hairstyle.
Wardrobe Department, 1968
Three women gathered around the microphone. The female producer, standing, appears to have told a joke.
Woman鈥檚 Hour, 1956

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