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Throwawayiea t1_iugh0cr wrote

I would guess this was around early 1940s because of the electric pole.. Rural Montana got electricity in 1938. The shack behind them isn't hooked up.

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ppardee t1_iugjy4o wrote

Is it an electric pole because it has two cross members? How do we tell it's electricity vs telegraph?

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Throwawayiea t1_iugogha wrote

Again, the image is fuzzy. I think the dangling down of the insulators would denote electricity. Old telegraph poles had the insulators normally positioned pointing skywards. However, to be fair, you do, on occasion, have electricity poles that have insulators pointing skywards, too. Again, this is all speculative.

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devadog OP t1_iugi2em wrote

Fascinating! Smart reasoning! How did you know the rural MT electricity fact?

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