Man on Platform Fixing Telephone Wires, 1929

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1929-09-05
10 x 8 x 0 in.

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on September 5, 1929. Image of man on platform fixing telephone wires, copy of photograph taken at Rosenfeld and Sons Studio, New York City. Visible in image: man in overalls and striped shirt on wooden platform looped around telephone cables, his tools are in a bag attached to the wire, the piece of cable he is working on is frayed, tree and house in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: “36056 9/5/29 / 1967-24 / A T & T Co-195 Bdway, City. / Miss F. Weber, Room 536 Copy of photo at studio“.

1984.187.36056

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection