Telephone cable puller, NYC, 1915

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1915
overall: 8 x 10 in.; 20.32 x 25.4 cm

8 x 10 glass plate negative taken by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1915. Image taken as part of long term commissioned work and documentation for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, ranging from 1910 through the 1940s. View of a telephone cable puller, seen inside a building at 61 Broadway, New York City, 1915. Man seen pulling cable from a junction box. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "3780 / Telephone Review / Cable Puller 61 Bway / Box 301".

1984.187.3780

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection