Vital Link
Photograph
Vital Link
Nightwatch at the U.N.
January 1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/4 × 9 5/16 in. (15.9 × 23.7 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0468
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, recto BC: 1/63 22) VITAL LINK: Mrs. Emily Ryan mans the switchboard in \ lonely splendor as the night rolls on. Ons of the largest in the \ world, it has direct tie-line to Secretary U Thant in his home. \ Mrs. Ryan estimates she has an average of 180 calls from midnight \ to dawn. One of her jobs is to process the toll slips of the \ nearly 200 long distance calls made daily. \ Credit: Priya Ramrakha © 1963 MAGNUM Photos
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