[GreenKeys] Old Photo Model 15

[Derek Cohn/WB0TUA]

Hi Everyone,

As the resident Morse operator of this list, I feel compeled to point out 
what appears to be a fully outfitted Morse desk in the photo.  The White 
swing-arm resonator just to the right of the woman's "angel wing" 
(scapula?).  You can see the cone shaped desk mount of the resonator 
attached to the desk and the swinging arm disappearing into the woman's 
right shoulder.  The resonator box that holds the sounder is on the end of 
the arm obscured by her head.  Also just behind the cone shaped desk mount 
is a typewriter.  This was most likely a telegrapher's mill or all-caps 
typewriter though I'm not knowledgeable about these enough to tell if it's 
all caps from this angle.  Just under the horizontal swinging arm is what 
appears to be a speed-key or bug.  I can't see it well enough to make a 
guess at what type it is but I'm reasonably certain that's what it is.

Seems like this was a real working telegraph office that still had a Morse 
wire in addition to teletype!

73,

Derek Cohn
Morse Telegraph Club - Alton Chapter
Office UD, Sine DJ
Amateur Radio Station - WBØTUA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bonamod at bellsouth.net>
To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:40 AM
Subject: [GreenKeys] Old Photo Model 15


> Not sure if anyone looks at old photo's but found this on a website today
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> http://www.shorpy.com/node/6229?size=_original
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