New York City, Broadway, Tall 1870s Sidepin and Crossarm Telegraph Pole
By Joe Maurath, Jr.; posted August 12, 2015
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The latter likely had early threaded insulators upon it with the possibility of threadless ones too. Nice example of urban telegraph pole construction in the earlier days of the telegraph ;-)