Durant, IA c.1905, Early Six-Pin Telephone or RR Telegraph Comms Pole
By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted May 25, 2015
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My opinion is that there was a RR crossing in the foreground (not visible) and that this was the telegraph line (by the type of six-pin and pole construction) that pararelled it.