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Telegraph.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Becker-Hull Ezra Cornell and telegraph materials

Charles R. Wright papers

 Collection — Manuscript box 64 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065257549]
Identifier: 4101
Scope and content

Letter to Charles R. Wright from H. Bronson in Orwell, Vermont, April 17, 1848, in which Bronson tells Wright that Ezra Cornell has been called to Ithaca, New York because of family illness. Also, a broadside advertising telegraph prices for major east coast cities and many cities in New York State.

Dates: [ca.1848]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Charles R. Wright papers

Elias W. Cady papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2399
Abstract

Letters to Cady and deeds, receipts, inventories, sermons, and poems.

Dates: 1801-1857.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Elias W. Cady papers

Gail and Stephen Rudin Cornelliana Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 47-1-4159
Scope and content Letters and documents from and to Ezra Cornell relating to the Utica, Ithaca and Elmira Railroad, to Douglass Boardman regarding the telegraph business, from Thomas Rooker about an "acoustic telegraph," and from Conrad Milton about a "percussion shell." Letters from Andrew Dickson White to. W. C. Crane about the possible purchase of a newspaper for the Library and to Abner I. Phipps doubting a visit to New England. A manuscript written by Jacob Gould Schurman for an anthology to be produced...
Dates: 1848-1931.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Gail and Stephen Rudin Cornelliana Collection

Michael and Cathi Casper telegraph key collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088362482]
Identifier: 6535
Scope and content

Vibroplex early original telegraph keys (1917,1920); Vibroplex Model X telegraph key, 1912; Vibroplex Double Lever telegraph key, 1917; piece of armor-plated telegraph cable from canal at Sharpness; 1858 Tiffany & Co. Atlantic Telegraph cable, with signed letter from Cyrus W. Field.

Dates: 1858-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Michael and Cathi Casper telegraph key collection

Williams family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1148
Abstract

Papers of Josiah Butler Williams, banker, businessman, and New York State Senator, contain business, political, and personal papers, accounts, legal documents and correspondence, 1809-1883. Subjects include banking, canals, the lumber business, railroads, and real estate; also, Cornell University, Ovid Academy, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Ithaca and Owego Railroad Company, the Ithaca Cotton Mills, the Merchants and Farmers' Bank, Ithaca, and the Sodus Canal.

Dates: 1778-1952.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Williams family papers

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