Wagon train, telephone company

glass negative; copy negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NV
1915-1916 (copy negative)
overall: 8 x 10 in.; 20.32 x 25.4 cm

8 x 10 glass plate copy negative made by Rosenfeld and Sons. Original image photographed by an unidentified photographer from the western part of the United States. 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 horses pulling covered wagons across the desert. Wagons have the Bell corporate logo on the side panels. A telephone pole stands in the foreground. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "#2278-A / 222-12 / Box 221". Date of this copy negative is 1915 or 1916, original date of photograph unknown.

1984.187.2778A

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection