Telephone linemen, White Plains, 1915

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, White Plains
1915-11-29
overall: 8 x 10 in.; 20.32 x 25.4 cm

8 x 10 glass plate negative taken by Rosenfeld and Sons. 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 telephone linemen wiring poles in White Plains, New York, November 29, 1915. Several linemen seen on ground and atop poles, pulling wire across a river valley. More telephone poles seen on distant horizon. Partial section of an unidentified bridge can be seen on the far left. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "3762 / 300--3 / 11/29/15 / Mr. Hunt A.T.T. / White Plains. Linemen. / Box 300".

1984.187.3762

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