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INDIA-TELECOMS-TELEGRAM
In this picture taken on July 12, 2013, an Indian employee looks at old typewriters laying in a store room at the Targhar telegraph office in Allahabad. Thousands of Indians crammed into telegram offices to send souvenir messages to friends and family in a last-minute rush before the service shuts down. July 14, 2013, is the last day that messages will be accepted by the 162-year-old service, the last major commercial telegram operation. In the days before mobile phones and the Internet, the telegram network was the main form of long-distance communication, with 20 million messages dispatched from India during the subcontinent's bloody partition in 1947. AFP PHOTO/ SANJAY KANOJIA
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Allahabad, INDIA |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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Sanjay Kanojia |
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14 Iulie 2013 |
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2832 x 4256 (1.47 MB) |
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