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Lighting Strikes the Telegraph Pole

(Lighting Strikes the Telegraph Pole)

William Henry Jackson
1866

While corralling in the middle of a severe thunderstorm on July 30, 1866, lightning struck a telegraph pole near the campfire, shattering it to pieces.

Pencil and ink on paper. H 10, W 13 cm
Scotts Bluff National Monument, SCBL 122