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[Installing telephone instrument] – Historic Reproduction

[Installing telephone instrument], [between 1915 and 1925] — historic photograph
[Installing telephone instrument], [between 1915 and 1925]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A workman setting up a telephone instrument is the subject of this glass dry plate negative, which the Detroit Publishing Company made sometime between 1915 and 1925. The record does not name the location or the people, but the catalog notes tie it to a numbered series of the company's negatives, and the plate reached the Library of Congress as a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado. Detroit Publishing, which was active from the 1890s into the 1920s, documented American towns, industry and everyday work, and this plate offers a glimpse of the telephone network expanding across the country in the years after World War I.

Created / published[between 1915 and 1925]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 7 x 5 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesTitle from jacket. Probably related to negatives D420-2578 to D420-2611. B 13" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2611. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan692 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77260

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