Women Operators Reading Script at 24 Walker Street Switchboard, New York City, 1931

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1931-08-21
10 x 8 x 0 in.

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on August 21, 1931. Image of women operators reading script at 24 Walker Street Switchboard, New York City. Visible in image: women in dresses stand in semi-circle holding pieces of paper wearing mouthpieces hung on straps around their necks, switchboards: "8219" to "8212" are in the background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: “40938 8/21/31 / 2173-10 / AT&T Co-15 Dey St, City / Mr. Lindsay, Room 1651 Photo of girls at switchboard at / 24 Walker St, City“.

1984.187.40938

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection