SummaryMan operating a switchboard. Newspaper clipping pasted to back of photograph from article, stamped: April 26, 1953, reading: Double-checking frantic phoners ... Inscription in pencil reads: "All telephone alarms of fire are taken on tape recorder in case person phoning in is too excited or is forced to hang up. Dispatcher Joe Gaynor receiving call and switching on tape recorder. Double check. Fire Department Brooklyn's Fire Alarm Central Office."
Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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