Electric lighting circuits to local customers extended along the left of this photo with a gooseneck-bracket incandescent street light viewed in the foreground.

Next in the background is what appears to be a pole with a small distribution transformer. Two "suicide box" cutouts most likely are what you see on the next-to-top crossarm. These contained small fuses protecting the transformer and were a means of disconnecting it from its 1,100 or 2,200 volt primary circuit. These "cutouts" thus acted as switches. They typically were porecelain with a pull-out handle mounted inside of them (on their bottoms).

Telephone openwire circuits appear to run along the right of this image.