Lightning flashes and electric dashes, a volume of choice telegraphic literature, humor, fun, wit & wisdom
An 1877 anthology of telegraphers' humor, sketches and verse compiled by trade publisher W. J. Johnston in New York for operators and clerks of the American telegraph industry. Pen-and-ink and wood-engraved cartoons show key-and-sounder offices, switchboards, hotel and depot interiors, multi-panel comic strips with hand-lettered captions, and caricatured operators, useful for period office furniture, lettering and sequential panel layouts.
