There are about 20 more pictures like this one. My grandmother is in some of them. She was a telephone operator in Gruver, Borger and Amarillo Texas from about 1923 to 1963. I don't know what event this is for this picture. My grandmother was Era Estelle Montgomery Harman Martin. She became Mrs. Martin in 1944.
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I moved back to Texas in 2021 and I want more information about my grandfather, John Thomas Harman. His father was John Tapley Harman. "Tom" died in 1933 near Hedley, TX. My grandma Estelle was a telephone operator for over 30 in the Texas panhandle.