Woman Talking on Kitchen Telephone as Maid Watches, 1928

safety negative

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on September 12, 1928. Image of woman talking on kitchen telephone as maid watches. Visible in image: woman in light colored pleated skirt and pleated top with tie at bottom holding standing telephone connected to a nook in the wall with telephone books and clock overhead, a maid wearing a French maid's dress- black dress with full lace white apron and headband- puts food away in icebox while watching woman on telephone, kitchen has tiled floor and walls and white bamboo-stiled bowback Windsor chair. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: “32612 / 9/12/28 / 1839-10 / A T & T Co-195 Bdway, City. / Miss F J Weber, Room 536 Copy of retouched photo at studio“.

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection