Bell Telephone Laboratory Field Test at Mendham, NJ, 1930

safety negative

PHOTOGRAPHS - SOFT NEGATIVES
Rosenfeld and Sons
USA, NJ, Mendham
1930-07-30
8 x 10 x 0 in.

8x10 safety negative photographed by Rosenfeld and Sons on July 30, 1930. Image of Bell Telephone Laboratory field test at Mendham, NJ. Visible in image: man wearing headphones adjusts knobs on portable electronic device hooked up to battery on wheelbarrow, another man sits on the wheelbarrow handles with book and measuring device, the men are in a field with house and tree line and telephone poles in background. CREDIT LINE: Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection. Typed on original negative sleeve: “38809 7/30/30 / 2082-17 / Bell Telephone Laboratories, / 463 West St, City. / Mr. P C Jones, Room 1102 Photo at Mendham, N J“.

1984.187.38809

Mystic Seaport, Rosenfeld Collection