Alexander Graham Bell Inaugurating Service Between New York and Chicago as Group Watches, 1929
safety negative
PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVESRosenfeld and Sons
USA, NY, New York
1929-02-19
10 x 8 x 0 in.
8x10 safety copy negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on February 19, 1929. Image of Alexander Graham Bell inaugurating service between New York and Chicago as group watches. Visible in image: Alexander Graham Bell sits in chair at desk with standing telephone speaking into the mouthpiece, John J. Carty's head appears between AT& T president John E. Hudson and vice president Edward J. Hall standing directly behind Bell, dried flowers tied around pillar, group of men standing behind Bell. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: “34040 / 2/19/29 / 1898-22 / W E Co-50 Church St-City / Mr. N T Jackson, Room 1981 Copy of photo at studio" and handwritten: "5x7 copy 44929F“.
1984.187.34040
Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection