About This Item


  • Title[New York Telephone Company operators]
  • Call NumberWORK_1009
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (WORK 1000, WORK 0999), some of which may also be described in this new record; Three views, in two different sizes, of New York Telephone Company female operators standing outside main building at the intersection of Willoughby Street and Bridge Street. 0999 is not dated.
  • Date1946, 1947
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description3 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • Note1009; 10 x 8 in. Dates stamped on verso: 1000: 1947; 1009: Jan. 12, 1946; on all captions: "Eagle staff photo." Grease pencil cropping marks on 1000 and 1009. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorBrooklyn eagle
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectNew York Telephone Company ; Telephone companies -- Employees -- New York (State) -- New York ; Telephone operators -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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.