Twenty-five Photographs of Telegraph Operators

Description:

Twenty-five Photographs of Telegraph Operators, various places, c. 1860-1900, including an albumen cabinet card sized image of a man and a woman on a porch seated at a table with telegraph equipment, an albumen stereoview by Woodman Stereoscopic Co., Rochester, New York, titled "Telegraphing," fourteen albumen cartes-de-visite images of telegraphers with telegraph keys, two albumen cartes-de-visite images of women with telegraph keys, six collodion gelatin photographs of telegraphers with equipment, and a printed advertising card for Valentine's School of Telegraphy at Janesville, Wisconsin.

Provenance: From the collection of Jay Gaynor.
Estimate $200-400

Some wear as expected with age.


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