City Service Transit Busses Lined Up in Newark, NJ, 1938

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NJ, Newark
1938-03-06
safety film, AGFA
8 x 10 x 0 in.

8x10 Agfa negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on March 6, 1938. Image of City Service Transit Busses and trucks lined up in Newark, New Jersey from left to right in descending order. Visible in image: a row of busses and trucks parked on brick paved parking lot so the front end of each vehicle shows and the information on each buss is visible, such as: “Charter Service / CITY SERVICE TRANSIT CO. / NEWARK / #45”, “RUTHERFORD STA. / #44” and “TEANECK / #46”. Then there is a row of 6 trucks and the last vehicle is a buss with “RIDGEFIELD PARK” on the side. Typed on original negative sleeve: “53334 3/6/38 / [Box] 2481-22 / Buchanan & Co-1501 Broadway, City / City Service Transit Busses / Newark, NJ”. Negative surface has been masked by original owner. Upper half of neg. background is blank. See 2 related prints stored in Numerical File under original negative number (one with background masked, one without). CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection.

1984.187.53334

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection