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At first, female elevator operators had to perform the same functional tasks as male operators, operating levers and closing elevator doors. As elevators became automated, the role shifted to greeting customers, advertising sales to customers, and making announcements.
In order to do this job, female elevator operators, called elevator girls, had to attend "charm school." The elevator operators for Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago, were required to attend an 8-week long course, where they learned how to dress, do their makeup, lose weight, clearly announce key merchandise areas, and answer customer questions. [4]
Sophie Lutterlough (1910—2009) was an American entomologist.Lutterlough began working at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) as an elevator operator in the 1940s at a time when discriminatory hiring practices prevented African-Americans from working in a curatorial or scientific capacity at the Museum. [1]
An elevator operator ran a manually operated elevator. Elevator operators still work in some historic or specialist installations and fill modern niches, such as in luxury hotels and Japanese department stores. [87] The introduction of automated elevators combined with operator strikes led to the almost complete elimination of elevator ...
Children's Hospital and a female elevator operator at a hotel brought the case to prevent enforcement of the act by Jesse C. Adkins and the two other members of a wage board. Judgment [ edit ]
The first major instance was in elevator operation. Before roughly the 1950s, human elevator operators had control over the speed and direction of elevator cars. But in 1945, a strike by New York ...
The Martha Washington hired its first female elevator operator in early 1904; [86] that year, the hotel replaced the bellboys with female bellhops [87] [82] and fired the male waiters. [ 88 ] After the minimum room rate was raised to $12 per week in late 1905, the New-York Tribune said that "the last touch of philanthropy has disappeared from ...
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe.