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Signor Marconi experimenting with wireless telegraphy

A group of people stand in front of a two-storey stone building on a barren rocky hilltop. The building has a taller turret on the right and a mast on the rooftop at left.

Job, John. 1902. St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. “Cabot Tower, Signal Hill, Signor Marconi Experimenting with Wireless Telegraphy, 1902.” Job Photograph Collection PF-315.103. Maritime History Archive Public Photo Catalogue.

Guglielmo Marconi and a group of people stand in front of Cabot Tower in St. John’s, Newfoundland, December 1901. Cabot Tower became a Marconi wireless station in 1933.