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Carte de visite portrait of three people posing in front of a Western Union Telegraph office, c. 1860′s/ 1870′s.

Source: National Museum of American History.

View of a street in Des Moines, Iowa, c. 1870′s/1880′s.

Portrait of a telegraph operator posing with a telegraph machine, c. 1840′s/1850′s.

Portrait of a group of U.S. Military Telegraph Corps civilian telegraph operators posing in front of a tent in a camp in Bealeton, Virginia, August 1863.

A group of Union telegraph operators drinking in their quarters situated near the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac during the Siege of Petersburg near Petersburg, Virginia. By Timothy O'Sullivan. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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A group of people waiting outside a of bookstore in Cumberland, Maryland, for news about the Baltimore Riot which was probably being received by telegraph, April 19, 1861. By Robert Shriver. Animated stereoview.

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Portrait of a group of young men and boys posing with two telegraph machines and a banjo, c. 1850's.

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The original four members of the United States Military Telegraph Corps in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 1861. They were telegraph operators at the Pennsylvania Railroad who were recruited to fill the vitally important role of maintaining telegraph communications in the early weeks of the Civil War between the various headquarters of Union forces in Washington, D.C.

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A group of people posing with the front of a train during an excursion at Sir John’s Run, Virginia (now West Virginia), 1859.

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