Installation of telephone lines across Nevada [graphic]. 1914.

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Shreeve, H. E. Installation of telephone lines across Nevada [graphic].

Installation of telephone lines across Nevada [graphic]. 1914.

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Images of the landscape, line crews, camps, wagons, automobiles, trucks, machinery, and equipment as telephone poles and lines are installed across the Nevada desert. Signs visible indicate that the project was for the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. and the Bell Telephone Co. of Nevada, and that it was part of a long distance line from San Francisco to New York. Identified locations include the vicinities of Sparks, Lovelock, Elko, the Humboldt River, and Tobar, Nevada. A few images of telephone poles being transferred from ship to railroad cars at an Oakland, Calif. wharf are included. Also of note are several views of an Indian encampment near Elko.

1 album (590 photographic prints) : b&w ; album 25 x 41 cm., images chiefly 8 x 14 cm.

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