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July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Rural Electrification Administration lineman inspecting a meter at a substation." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.
Perhaps the most (ultimately) famous "utility lineman" is former Vice President Dick Cheney, who worked the lines in Wyoming (and was a member of the IBEW union) after he dropped out of Yale in 1960.
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