January 1943. “Chicago Union Station. Telegraph switchboard of the Pennsylvania Railroad.”
(Gefunden bei shorpy.com)
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November 1942. “Chicago, Illinois. These pneumatic tubes in the Illinois Central Railroad yardmaster’s office connect him with the general office.”
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“In der Früh schafft er es nicht aus dem Bett
weil er abends seine Augen nicht
von dem glühenden Bildschirm lösen kann.”
Postkarte von Iwan Semionow, 1959
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Quelques vues intérieures de l’enseigne His Master’s Voice/HMV sur Oxford Street (Londres) dans les 60’s.
Die Wikipedia über HMV
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Aus: Hobby - Das Magazin der Technik, Nr. 11. November 1959.
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In 1936, Post Office rules stated that game, including rabbits, could be posted with nothing but a neck label as long as “no liquid is likely to exude”.
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1950 article from Library Journal ponders, “Have the Newer Media Made Reading Obsolete?” – testament to how old our seemingly era-defying concerns really are. (“The answer is no, says this master of mass journalism, from experience & observation.”)
(Gefunden bei atompunk.tumblr.com)
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The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), one of the federal executive departments of the United States government charged with providing public utilities (electricity, telephone, water, sewer) to rural areas in the United States via public-private partnerships. The agency’s acronym is an allusion to the Latin word rus (”countryside”), the etymological source of the word rural.
(Gefunden bei rawdraw-favorite)
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