Interior of the Clark Wireless Telegraph Station at Pt. Huron, Mich. – Historic Print
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Interior of the Clark Wireless Telegraph Station at Pt. Huron, Mich.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Interior of the Clark Wireless Telegraph Station at Pt. Huron, Mich.
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This interior view of the Clark Wireless Telegraph Station at Port Huron, Michigan, offers a rare look inside an early wireless facility. Around 1907, wireless telegraphy was still a young technology, relying on spark transmitters and sensitive receivers before vacuum tubes made radio practical. Stations like this one sent messages without wires, and their equipment shows how much of that early work depended on hand-built apparatus. The date is approximate, taken from an old caption card that has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mich.--Pt. Huron; Telegraph; Geogr.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,247 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140721 |
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