Thanks to everyone for your input. We are also talking to city officials in Elizabeth to see if they have anything in their records.

Would anyone know if it was used for fires, or air raids, or both, or some other purpose, and if it could have been installed by the City of Elizabeth, a state department, or federal agency of some sort?

Someone else mentioned a Decot to me, too. But what about the "basket" underneath? In google searches I haven't seen anything like that. Almost like a crow's nest on a ship mast. And later pictures we have show it gone and replaced by telephone wires and their cross-beams. And, in the late...

We have later photos of that pole and, at that time, the pole is supporting telephone wires. And, at the bottom there appears to be a small box that might have been a pull-switch for a siren or alarm of some sort.

Looking for help with a historical project for a hospital client. The attached photo shows a telephone pole with a basket of some sort at the top. Later photos of this location show the pole as a telephone pole, with wires, etc. Can anyone help us identify what is at the top of the pole? It is dated...