A telegram, an actual telegram
To the artist and writer Joe Brainard.
How to send a telegram
A Chicago-to-Los Angeles train pulls up to a station for a brief stop. Sandwiches, coffee, and telegrams await. From The Narrow Margin (dir. Richard Fleischer, 1952).
日本の電報
Japanese telegrams.
What is a straight wire?
People in old movies are always sending their telegrams straight wire.
An EXchange name sighting
From Pitfall (dir. Andre de Toth, 1948), an exchange name in a telegram.
Willa Cather, corrected again
A telegram with a last-minute correction.
Telegram (Easy Living)
You either find this sort of thing inspired and funny or you don’t.
Caroline's Crayons' telegram story
A story in pictures, from Caroline's Crayons
How to send telegrams
From a 1949 secretarial manual
Dowdy. World. Mourns. End. Of. Era. Stop.
The end of the telegram