Helpline bridge telephone
date: label: date made
content: 1984
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Radio telephone transceiver from the north side of the Mid-Hudson Bridge. Designed and used as part of a suicide prevention program after the installation of physical barriers was determined to be impractical. south side of the bridge and both units communicated with a base station at Department headquarters. Donation includes photographs, construction blueprints, contract copies and copies of newspaper article from the time of installation.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Decal on both sides: “HOTLINE”. Lettering on front: “To use hold door open talk into box.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Dutchess County Dept. of Mental Hygiene, through Ken Glatt and John Stern
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0226.01
label: accession number
content: 2009.0226
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0226.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: radio telephone
label: Object Name
content: telephone
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/2 in x 11 1/4 in x 9 in; 41.91 cm x 28.575 cm x 22.86 cm