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Long Distance: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 07/27/2021 - 12:23pm.
September 1941. "Telephone sign along highway. Judith Basin, Great Falls, Montana." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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Submitted by Imagine on Tue, 07/27/2021 - 10:08pm.
Who would have thought that 80 years hence a telephone/computer/camera thing would be owned by just about all people and rarely leave their hands?
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