Operators Around Painting at AT&T Co., 32 6th Avenue, New York City, 1948

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1948-09-22
safety film, Defender
overall: 8 x 10 in.

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on September 22, 1948. Image of telephone operators standing around painting at AT&T Co., 32 6th Avenue, New York City. Visible in image: view of 3 telephone operators in dresses holding headsets looking at a painting of an operator at a switchboard. In the background is a huge switchboard with many women telephone operators working at the switchboard. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: “62784/ 9/22/48 / 2875-15 / A T & T Co-195 Broadway, NYC / Mr. D F Jones, Room 536 / Operators around painting at / 32 - 6th Ave, NYC“.

1984.187.62784

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection