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Vail Municpal Building with crowd in front for telephone company, 07/09/1927, Morristown, NJ

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Vail Municpal Building with crowd in front for telephone company, 07/09/1927, Morristown, NJ

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Title	Vail Municpal Building with crowd in front for telephone company, 07/09/1927, Morristown, NJ
Description	See Daily Record, 7/11/1927, page 1: "Vail Medals Awarded Telephone Heroes" Each year the New York Telephone Company awarded medals - one gold, five silver and multiple bronze group medals - for extraordinary services rendered by employees. On July 10, 1926, lightning struck a building filled with explosives at the Lake Denmark Naval Station, resulting in several deaths, widespread evacuation and property damage in excess of $30 million. The linemen and operators of NY Telephone "worked day and night, with scarcely a minute's rest" to restore service to the depot and to handle the excessive call volume. The ceremony depicted in the Curtiss photos (CU 3591-3605) was for the awarding of several of the Vail medals (3 silver and 3 bronze group medals) to the employees in the Morristown area who had provided the "deeds of service".the prior year. More than 2000 people attended the event, which was broadcast live on WOR radio from Newark, and which was filmed and shown as a newsreel at the Lyon's Park Theater on 7/11-13/1927.
Subjects	Historic Buildings, Houses, and Sites
Keywords	Municipal Buildings; Government Buildings
Names	Vail Mansion; South Street
Creator	Frederick Curtiss
Geographic Location	Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey
Date	07/09/1927
Format	monochrome photograph
Rights	http://morristownlibrary.org/HCFindingAids/reproductions.pdf
Image ID	CU3600.tif
Holding Institution	The Morristown & Morris Township Public Library, The North Jersey History & Genealogy Center