[QUOTE=Liberal]
The thing about the telegraphed pictures with all the colors of nature was pretty good though.
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I was surprised it said that even then photographs were being telegraphed short distances. Was that really being done as early as 1900?
[QUOTE=Laughing Lagomorph]
I was surprised it said that even then photographs were being telegraphed short distances. Was that really being done as early as 1900?
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Ye olde faxe machine. 
[QUOTE=FlightlessBird]
Maybe they assumed we would release an animal from the menagerie and then go hunt it.
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Maybe the thought was that men would stand around a cage of birds and blast at them with shotguns. Obviously, a fantasy that will never come true.