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Postcard featuring a photograph of a telegraph pole with three men on it

A postcard featuring a black and white photograph of a telegraph pole, with two men sitting on the cross tree at the top, and one man standing on a ladder leaning against the pole. The postcard is unused.

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National Museum of Australia

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