Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Becker-Hull Ezra Cornell and telegraph materials
Collection
Identifier: 1-1-262
Abstract
Notes, letters, documents, and pamphlets relating to Ezra Cornell and to the telegraph, including letters from Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell, the Ithaca Journal, Andrew Dickson White, and T.G. Alvord; letters from Ezra Cornell to J.J. Speed and F.O.J. Smith; letters between Ezra Cornell and William A. Woodward; extracts from Ezra Cornell's private journal; Charles H. Hull's notes on Ezra Cornell; excerpts from letters received by Andrew Dickson White in the first few years of his...
Dates:
1844-1933.
Ezra Cornell papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-1-1
Scope and content
The earliest papers, 1828-1843, cover the years when Cornell worked in Ithaca and travelled for Barnaby and Mooers plows. They include letters, accounts, and other papers concerning his employment by Jeremiah Beebe, the owner of a flour and plaster mill on Fall Creek in Ithaca, N.Y. and his other business interests in Ithaca. Family letters contain information about his work, plans and opinions; news about his growing family; and reports of events in Ithaca. After 1838, there is...
Dates:
1746 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1844 - 1870
Robert Dalton Harris, Jr. telegraph collection
Collection
Identifier: 8720
Abstract
A collection of approximately 2,235 ephemeral and manuscript items documenting the history of the telegraph between about 1840 and 1940, collected over a period of fifty years by Robert Harris. Thematic areas of emphasis include early United States patents, the first start-up telegraphic associations, the spread of telegraphic lines over the U.S. and Canada, the laying of the transatlantic cables and the rise of Western Union. Archival materials trace the economic and social impact of...
Dates:
1840 - 1994
Samuel F. B. Morse and Alfred Vail telegraph receiver and records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6830
Scope and content
Original telegraph receiver used in Baltimore for the receipt of the first telegraph message, May 24, 1844. Designed and operated by Alfred Vail.
Dates:
1844-1898.
Telegraphy miscellany
Collection — Manuscript box 64 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065257481]
Identifier: 4073
Scope and content
Printed items and photographs concerning the centennial of the first telegraph message, May 1844; exhibition of artworks by Samuel F. B. Morse at Vassar College Centennial, 1961; Samuel F. B. Morse exhibit at Syracuse Museum of Fine Art, 1956; the United States Farmers Almanac 1863, published by Sower and Barnes, and 1914 clipping from an Ithaca, New York newspaper.
Dates:
1914-1961.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Telegraph -- Equipment and supplies. 2
- Telegraph -- History. 2
- Agriculture -- New York (State) 1
- Cattle -- Breeding -- New York (State) 1
- Coal trade. 1
- Families -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
- Georgia -- Description and travel. 1
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- History. 1
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Maine -- Description and travel. 1
- New York (State) -- Politics and government. 1
- Photographs 1
- Plows -- Maine. 1
- Plows -- New York (State) 1
- Railroads -- New York (State) 1
- Solid Freeform Fabrication. 1
- Stock certificates. 1
- Telegrams. 1
- Telegraph -- Employees. 1
- Telegraph -- Europe -- History. 1
- Telegraph -- Law and legislation. 1
- Telegraph -- United States -- History. 1
- Telegraph, Wireless. 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Telegraphy. 1
- Three-dimensional printing -- Specimens. 1
- Transatlantic cables 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. 1 + ∧ less
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