Telegraph -- Equipment and supplies.
Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Tiffany and Co. Atlantic Telegraph Cable souvenir
Collection — Box 1, mu: 741
Identifier: 8946
Abstract
Souvenir made from a piece of the transatlantic telegraph cable by the American jewelry company Tiffany and Co. in 1858.
Dates:
1858