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Candlestick Phone

Candlestick Phone

Marines and radio

Marines and radio

Woman Listening to Recording Device

Woman Listening to Recording Device

Man Talking on Old Telephone

Old Telephone

Field Telegraph Station

Field Telegraph Station

[Petersburg, Virginia  U.S.

U.S. Military Telegraph Wagon

Flag Signalmen

Flag Signalmen

German Telephone Central at

German Telephone Central at front

Printing telegraph

Printing telegraph

U.S. Military Telegraph

U.S. Military Telegraph Construction Corps

Blind girls operating telephone

Blind girls operating telephone switchboard

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi

Woman Talking on Phone

Woman Talking on Phone

Signal Tower

Signal tower on left of the line near the Appomattox River

Signal Tower

Jacksonville, Fla. Signal tower

Signal Tower

Signal Tower

Signal Tower

Point of Rocks, Virginia (vicinity). Signal tower

Taliaferro Preston Shaffner

Taliaferro Preston Shaffner

Signal Station

Signal Station

Signal Tower

Signal Tower

Dutch Gap Canal [...]

Dutch Gap Canal [...] April 1865

Bermuda Hundred, James River,

Bermuda Hundred, James River, Virginia. Signal tower on left of Bermuda line

 

 

 

 

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