Telephone employees sorting tickets, Walker Street, NYC, 1917

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1917-9-27
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 women Telephone Company employees, sorting local and toll tickets in the Walker Street office, September 27, 1917. Over sixty women seen seated in a large room at individual desks, sorting tickets. Women are in a various styles of blouses, dresses, and upkeep. Hairstyles range in styles and neatness, though all women have hair tied back in some fashion. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "6520 / 9/27/17 / 524--12 / P / Tel. Co. / Box 524 / Assorting local and toll tickets at Walker St. / (for lecture)".

1984.187.6520

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