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[D.C. Wash. - White House Offices: Telegraph operator at work], c1909. — historic photograph
[D.C. Wash. - White House Offices: Telegraph operator at work], c1909.. Historic photograph from the White House collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [D.C. Wash. - White House Offices: Telegraph operator at work] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A telegraph operator sits at work in one of the White House offices in this view, dating to about 1909, when wire messages were still a core part of how the executive branch communicated. The photograph was made by Clinedinst, a Washington studio that recorded government buildings, officials and daily work in the capital during the early 1900s. Telegraph traffic from the building carried official messages to newspapers, cabinet departments and distant cities, and the telephone and wireless were only beginning to take over that role. The record comes from an old caption card and has not been verified, so the exact room and date remain uncertain.

Created / publishedc1909.
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhoto copyrighted by Clinedinst. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,093 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123063

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