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Telegraph -- Equipment and supplies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

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