Personal Service Exchange at Wanamakers Dry Cleaners, 1928

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1928-10-23
8 x 10 in.

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on October 23, 1928. Image of personal service exchange at Wanamakers Dry Cleaners in New York City. Visible in image: two rows of switchboards with women sitting at desks with headsets and mouth horns, male supervisor standing at end of row, calenders and "RUG STORAGE CHARGES" boards hanging from partitioned walls. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: “32908 / 10/23/28 / 1851-18 / Bell Telephone Laboratories, 463 West St-Ctiy. / Mr. P C Jones, / Photo of personal service exchange / at Wanamakers“.

1984.187.32908

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection