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Telegraph Office Marker
Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 16, 2019
Caption: Telegraph Office Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (middle left) (Map of ) North Dakota Frontier Army Forts, 1858-1864; (center) Colonel William B. Hazen; (top right) A telegraph key, or switching device used to send morse code. Transmission speeds varied from 5 words per minute, by novice operators, up to about 30 words per minute by skilled operators. (bottom right) Map of Fort Buford in 1893
Submitted: November 30, 2019, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p503992
File Size: 3.344 Megabytes

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