Rural family with telephone communications, 1912

glass negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - GLASS NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld, Morris
1912-1913
emulsion on glass
overall: 8 x 10 in.; 20.32 x 25.4 cm

8 x 10 glass plate negative taken by Rosenfeld and Sons in 1915. Image taken as part of long term commissioned work and documentation for the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, ranging from 1910 through the 1940s. View of a family posed in a rural field, with a modified Italianate style house, a windmill, and telephone wires seen in the background. This image was used by the telephone company to illustrate the telephone was accessible even in the country. Handwritten on original negative sleeve: "813 / Box 66-14".

1984.187.813

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection