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Creation Date
3-23-1923
Description
Street scene photograph showing the location of Dayton area telephone poles and telephone lines. Photograph No. 99, On North Findlay Street, at First Street, looking north. In addition to the telephone pole lines, the photograph shows: residences and businesses in downtown Dayton, including a café or restaurant called "J. T. Place" (also says "Oscar's Place" on the side upper) in the right foreground, multiple advertisements for Mailpouch Tobacco, one advertisement for The Roemildt Company (paint and glass), and a streetcar in the distance.
Source
"Photographs of Telephone Pole Lines of The Ohio Bell Telephone Company Dayton District" by E.E. Brownell (March 1923)
Item Identifier
ms70_02_101
Publisher Repository
Special Collections and Archives; Wright State University Libraries
Permissions
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Collection
MS-70: Dayton Telephone Pole Line Photographs
Media Type
Photographic print, black and white
Spatial Coverage
Dayton (Ohio)
Repository Citation
Fritsch, R. E., "No. 99, On North Findlay Street, at First Street, Looking North" (1923). Dayton Telephone Pole Line Photographs (MS-70). 99.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms70_photographs/99
Keywords
Findlay Street; First Street; Dayton (Ohio); Streets--Ohio--Dayton; Houses; Business Districts; Advertising; Street Railroads