Helen Campbell studying radio science at Hunter College
Photograph showing student Helen Campbell studying radio science at Hunter College. In 1917 the National League for Women's Service set up a program at Hunter college to train female radio operators during World War I. Campbell was one of the first graduates and worked as a wireless operator throughout the war. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015, The New York Times, June 10, 1917 and The Sunday Oregonian, May 20, 1917)
- Date
- 1917
- Collection
- Bain News Service
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,134 × 4,549 pixels
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