About This Item

  • Call NumberWORK_1002
  • TitleKeeping dial system working
  • SummaryCaption: "Keeping dial system working--Two non-stri[kers] test and clean banks of complex dial telephone equipm[ent] at downtown Brooklyn exchange building, 360 Bridge [St.] According to union, dial system will begin breaking down by next week. Company officials say they can nurse mechanism along many weeks."
  • Date1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks; retouched. On verso: date stamped: Apr. 9, 1947; on caption: "Eagle staff photo." Title from caption on verso.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectNew York Telephone Company ; Telephone companies -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (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: Telephone Company: Strikes