Installing residential telephone lines, circa 1915-1916

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, Bronx
circa 1915-1916
glass
10x8 in.

8x10 glass plate negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons circa 1915-1916. Image of men installing residential phone lines in the Bronx. Visible in image: men on top of phone poles and housing attaching phone lines, two boys on the street watch, late fall or winter as all the trees are bare. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "3115 / Telephone Co. / Plant Dept. / Mr. Lynch- Lecture / Box 244".

1984.187.3115

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection