Ground breaking ceremony at Western Electric Co, Kearny, NJ, 1928

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NJ, Kearny
1928-06-15
8 x 10 in.

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on June 15, 1928. Image of groundbreaking ceremony at Western Electric Company in Kearny, NJ. Visible in image: group of men, with a lone woman, watching as a man in the center picks up the ceremonial first shovel of dirt, large building in background, surveying tripod to side. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: "32006 / 6/15/28 / 1814-4 / WECo-110 Central Ave-Kearny, NJ / Mr. GM Bonnell / Photo at Kearny, NJ".

1984.187.32006

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection