arly telephone replica, transmitted audible speech, 1876
gelatin silver print
PHOTOGRAPHSRosenfeld and Sons
1917-01-25 (negative); 1876 (telephone)
overall: 8 x 10 in.; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
8 x 10 gelatin silver print made from an 8 x 10 glass plate nitrate negative, taken by Rosenfeld and Sons. 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 reproduction telephone transmitter powered by a single-pole magnet attached to a membrane, used at the Centennial Exhibition by Alexander Graham Bell, for a crowd demonstration. This negative was taken on January 25, 1917. The telephone reproduces an 1876 era telephone. Stamped on back in oval: "MORRIS ROSENFELD / PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATOR / 116 NASSAU ST. N.Y. / Phone Beekman 3-4970".
1984.187.5308.2
Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection