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Files of personal and professional correspondence, research files, files on writings, files relating to her work on the Roman author Valerius Maximus, personal memorabilia, travel diaries, and photographs. Also includes personal correspondence with Margaret Bingham Stillwell, and a printed copy of Schullian's dissertation, External stimuli to literary production in Rome, 90 B.C.-27 B.C.

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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.

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...

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Photographs, correspondence, telegraph equipment and ephemera including a Western Union doll, telegrams, stock certificates, periodicals, pamphlets, sales catalogs, posters, stamps, clippings, and other items relating to the history of the telegraph, mainly in the United States. Also, photographs, clippings, and correspondence concerning the early history of the telephone.

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Souvenir made from a piece of the transatlantic telegraph cable by the American jewelry company Tiffany and Co. in 1858.