About This Item

  • Call NumberNEIG_1450
  • TitleOperation big switch
  • SummaryCaption: "Operation big switch--Norman H. Free, manager of the Hotel St. George, ... A. Sloan Mayo, Long Island Service Manager for the New York Telephone Company, and Mrs. Ruth H. Foster, supervisor, watch Mrs. Agnes McMann plug in first call to come through the hotel's new automatic flash and ringer board. The ceremony marked the transfer of the hotel's 3,000 odd telephones to a completely new central switchboard circuit--the first of its kind for the hotel world."
  • Date1954
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date stamped: Oct. 26, 1954; Brooklyn Eagle stamp; photographer's stamp. Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorGeller, Jules
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectHotel St. George (New York, N.Y.) ; Hotels -- New York (State) -- New York ; Switchboards -- New York (State) -- New York [lctgm] ; Telephone operators -- New York (State) -- New York ; Telephone switchboards
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Hotels: Hotel St. George