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25 photos and 1 illustration tagged wires, from 11 members of Flickr Commons.

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• libraryofcongress
• power
• electricity
• cables
• powerlines
• usnationalarchives
• vintage
• alfredtpalmer
• telephone
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• 1910s
• woman
• aircraft
• 1940s
• 1942
• wire
• environmentalprotectionagency
• documerica
• pole
• usa
• workers
• wing
• biplane

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• The Library of Congress 10 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 5 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• Powerhouse Museum 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• The National Archives UK 1 photo / illustration
• Nationaal Archief 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Scotland 1 photo / illustration
• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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[Men working on telephone lines, probably near a TVA dam hydroelectric plant] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 5 older comments, and then…
• Rob Lee said:

  I don't think that is code

• perfgeek said:

  Looks more like telegraph lines to me :)

• semicolon835 said:

  Having worked on poles and lines like this, - these are not power lines. They could be telegraph but most likely good old telephone open wire lines. They could be control lines for the power plant but I doubt it. There is a larger cable attached to the pole below the open wire, most likely phone cable added to increase capacity but also sometimes used by the rail road.

• Jonathan Stiles said:

  They are on-line.

• Brock Meeks said:

  Ummm... let's see, the title says "telephone lines," now, I'm just saying, but that seems like a pretty good clue to me as to what these are.

General Post Office, O'Connell Street, Dublin City, Co. Dublin

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 17 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  National Library of Ireland on The Commons Ahem! It's Friday. Two more sleeps ...

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  beachcomber australia I am completely at sea! I was thinking it was Thursday and now I've lost a day, drat! Could you rewind the world a little bit????

• O Mac said:

  Post rising. mid to late 1920's ? It's 10:30 and there's an elephant on a window ledge. On the side of No.8 can be seen "DunLaoghaire". It was Kingstown prior to 1920.

• Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:

  The street sign for Princes Street is in the (then) modern style which - I believe - were erected during the city-wide makeover around the time of the Eucharistic Congress. Thus narrowing the time window to after 1931/2. The corresponding ones in Dun Laoghaire Borough were a distinctive mustard colour, the Dublin City & County ones were green. Note the distinctive border.flic.kr/s/aHsk1L527d

• Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:

  Here's nearby Henry Place today . .
  

Amateur wireless station (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Max Perrini said:

  Are inviting you to join them and add this wonderful photo to their group.
  Marconi, Radio and Radioamateurs Activity
  

• Doubtful Science said:

  Nice picture that how commnication technology has been improved. Although its function is very simple, the machine itself looks very complicated.

• Lú_ said:

  This photograph is part of the Indicommons.org post Happy Birthday, Samuel Morse!
  
  

• Ken Carr said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Ham Shacks, and we'd love to have this added to the group!