Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of the "Hello Girls" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
Hello Girls, Pershing, switchboard, operator, telephone, telegrapher, strike
It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results. To narrow your results for this topic, search between 1901 and 1922.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"Busy Work of the Telephone Girls"
The Honolulu Republican (Honolulu, HI), February 10, 1901, Image 6, col. 5-7.
"Telephone Girl's Troubles"
Barbour County index (Medicine Lodge, KS), November 26, 1902, Image 3, col. 3.
"Sweet Voice Wins 'Hello Girl' A Millionaire for a Husband"
The St. Louis Republic (St. Louis, MO), May 3, 1903, Magazine Section, Image 57, col. 5-7.
"The Hello Girl"
The Gold Leaf (Henderson, NC), November 3, 1904, Image 5, col. 5.
"Hello Girls of Gotham No Longer Alarm Clocks for Sleepy Heads"
The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA), August 18, 1905, Page 8, Image 8, col. 2-3.
"When in Doubt Just Ask the 'Information' Telephone Girl: She is a Patient Solver of All Kinds of Vexed Problems"
Evening Star (Washington, DC), March 17, 1907, Sunday Star, Page 6, Image 55, col. 1-7.
"All Praise to the Hello Girls"
The Lexington Dispatch (Lexington, SC), August 28, 1907, Page 4, Image 4, col. 2.
"'Hello Girl' Foretells Quake"
University Missourian (Columbia, MO), October 11, 1909, Page 4, Image 4, col. 2.
"All About the Hello Girls"
The Camden Chronicle (Camden, TN), May 20, 1910, Image 6, col. 2-3.
"All Corporations No Bad Says Local Phone Girl, Tells Fred Boult Why"
The Tacoma Times (Tacoma, WA), June 10, 1913, Image 1, col. 5-7.
"Hello Girls Even Have to Mind Babes Over 'Phone'"
Bismarck Daily Tribune (Bismarck, ND), July 12, 1916, Image 1, col. 2.
"5000 Phone Girls Strike"
The Tacoma Times (Tacoma, WA), November 1, 1917, Image 1, col. 1-4.
"Philadelphian First in War Phone Service"
Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA), March 09, 1918, Final, Image 1, col. 3.
"New York Girl Types You Know"
The Evening World (New York, NY), August 7, 1918, Final Edition, Image 12, col. 3-5.
"Brave Girl Soldiers of the Switchboard"
The Sun (New York, NY), September 29, 1918, Section 4 Magazine Section, Page 11, Image 41, col. 1-4.
"Overseas Girls Find War-Zone Friends in Town"
The Washington Times (Washington, DC), May 4, 1922, Late Financial, Page 4, Image 4, col. 7.

Hello Girls: Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America