Man Sitting in Den Holding Telephone, 1929

safety negative

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on March 13, 1929. Image of man sitting in den holding telephone. Visible in image: man wearing a smoking jacket over his suit pants and vest sitting in a wingback chair holding a pipe in one hand and resting the other on the receiver of the telephone while a newspaper is spread across his lap, phonebook, telephone, Rockingham ceramic tobacco jar and dog figurine on side table with turned legs and drawer, paintings on wall, table lamp on cabinet behind him lit, floral vase on a second cabinet. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: “34173 / 3/13/29 / 1904 / A T & T Co-195 Bdway, City / Miss F J Weber, Room 536 Copy of retouched photo at studio“.

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection