Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Telegraph
Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Telegraph
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3.48 Cubic feet
consisting of 7.5 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, 1 object, plus digital images of some collection material.
1863-1903
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Telegraph forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
English
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Warshaw Subject Category: Telegraph
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Telegraph is a portion of the Business Ephemera Series of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Accession AC0060 purchased from Isadore Warshaw in 1967. Warshaw continued to accumulate similar material until his death, which was donated in 1971 by his widow, Augusta. For a period after acquisition, related materials from other sources (of mixed provenance) were added to the collection so there may be content produced or published after Warshaw's death in 1969. This practice has since ceased.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Some items may be restricted due to fragile condition.
Conditions Governing Use
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Materials in the Archives Center
Archives Center Collection of Business Americana (AC0404)
Forms Part Of
Forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana.
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Series 1: Business Ephemera
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Series 2: Other Collection Divisions
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Series 3: Isadore Warshaw Personal Papers
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Series 4: Photographic Reference Material
Preferred Citation
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana Subject Categories: Telegraph, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Processing Information
In 2016, with funding provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund, the Archives Center at the National Museum of American History implemented the use of minimal level processing standards to increase information about and facilitate access to more of our collections.
A large portion of stored material from the original acquisition received minimal level processing, which resulted in additions to this Subject category. This effort included basic arrangement and replacement of non-archival housing for long-term stability, but staples and other fasteners have not all been removed. Revisions to the encoded finding aid were made to reflect the added content in context to the previously processed material.
Minimal level processing and enhancement of the machine-readable finding aid completed by Nicole Blechynden, September 2017.
Ephemera
Business ephemera
Business Records, Marketing Material, Trade Literature, and Other
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1863-1903
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Telegraph Company Materials
1
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Albany District Telegraph Company
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1
1
American District Telegraph Company
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1
2
American Machine Telegraph Company
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1
3
American Rapid Telegraph Company
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1
4
American Telegraph Company
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1
5
American Telegraph and Cable Company
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1
6
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
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1
7
American Union Telegraph Company
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1
8
American Wireless Company
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1
9
Anglo American Telegraph Company
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1
10
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
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1
11
Atlantic and Pacific and Eastern Franklin Telegraph Companies
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1
12
Automatic Telegraph Company
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1
13
Bains Chemical Telegraph
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1
14
Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company
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1
15
Banker's, Brokers' and Commercial Lines of Telegraph
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1
16
Bankers merchants telegraph Company
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1
17
Boston Telegraph Company
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1
18
British-lrish Magnetic Telegraph Company
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1
19
Buffalo and Erie Railroad Telegraph
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1
20
California State Telegraph Company
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1
21
Capital District Telegraph Company
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1
22
Central and Southern American Telegraph Company
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1
23
Chester and Derry Telegraph Company
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1
24
Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company
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1
25
Cohoes and Troy Telegraph Company
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1
26
Commercial Cable
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1
27
Del. Lack and Western Telegraph
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1
28
Delaware River Telegraph Company
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1
29
District Telegraph Company
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1
30
Eastern Telegraph Company
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1
31
Erie Telegraph and Telephone Company
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1
32
Electric and International Telegraph
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1
33
Electro Magnetic Telegraph Company
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1
34
l 35 Empire Telegraph Company
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1
35
Franklin Telegraph Company
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1
36
Gold and Stock Telegraph Company
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1
37
Great North Western Telegraph Company of Canada
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1
38
Holmes Burglar Alarm Telegraph Company
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1
39
House Postal Telegraph Company
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1
40
Illinois and Mississippi Telegraph Company
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1
41
Independent Line of Telegraph
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1
42
Insulated Lines Telegraph Company
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1
43
International Printing Telegraph Company
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1
44
Leigh Telegraph Company
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1
45
Magnetic Telegraph Company
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1
46
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America and Canada
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1
47
Monongahela Valley Telegraph Company
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1
48
Montreal Telegraph Company
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1
49
Morse's American Telegraph
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1
50
Mutual District Telegraph Company
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1
51
Mutual Union Telegraph Company
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1
52
National Telegraph Company
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1
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National Telegraph Lines
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1
54
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
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1
55
New York, Albany and Buffalo Telegraph Company
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1
56
Letter, Williamsburg, Va
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
.15 Cubic feet
1 folder
May 7, 1862
English.
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Letter, Williamsburg, Va
Local Numbers
AC0060-0002559 (NMAH Acc.)
Scope and Contents
Letter written by a Union Civil War soldier after the Battle of Williamsburg. The letter relates one of the first uses of mechanical land mines in battle as well as the death and destruction witnessed after the battle. (This letter has been transcribed by the Transcription Center.)
battles
Land mines
Civil war -- United States
Williamsburg (Va.)
Yorktown (Va.)
Letters (correspondence) -- 1860-1870
New York and Erie Railroad Company Telegraph
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1
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New York Central Railroad Telegraph
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2
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New York State Telegraph
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2
2
North American Telegraph Company
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2
3
Northern Telegraph Company
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2
4
Oregon Telephone and telegraph Company
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2
5
O'Rielly Telegraph
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2
6
Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph
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2
7
Pacific Mutual Telegraph Company
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2
8
Pennsylvania Railroad Company Telegraph
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2
9
People's Telegraph Line
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2
10
Philadelphia Local Telegraph Company
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2
11
Philadelphia, Reading and Pottsville Telegraph Company
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2
12
Philadelphia and Wilkesbarre Telegraph Company
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2
13
Pleasant Valley Telegraph Company
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2
14
Post Office Telegraphs
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2
15
Post Office Submarine Telegraphs
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2
16
Postal and Commercial Union Telegraph Companies
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2
17
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
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2
18
Reading and Columbia Railroad Telegraph
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2
19
Southern and Atlantic Telegraph Company
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2
20
Southern Magnetic Telegraph
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2
21
Southern Michigan Telegraph Company
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2
22
Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company
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2
23
Stock Quotation Telegraph Company
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2
24
Telegrafi Dello Stato (Italian)
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2
25
Telegramme Prive (French)
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2
26
Telegraphie des Deutchen Reiches (German)
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2
27
Telephone and Telegraph Company
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2
28
Telepost Company
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2
29
Troy and Canada Junction Telegraph Company
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2
30
Union Rail Road Telegraph Office
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2
31
Union Telegraph Company
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2
32
United Lines Telegraph Company
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2
33
United States Military Telegraph
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2
34
United States Telegraph Company
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2
35
United Wireless Telegraph Company
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2
36
Vermont and Boston Telegraph Company
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2
37
Vermont and Boston Telegraph Line
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2
38
Western Telegraph Company
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2
39
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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3
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Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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3
2
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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3
3
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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3
4
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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3
5
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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3
6
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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3
7
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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3
8
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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3
9
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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3
10
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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2
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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4
3
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegrams sent
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4
4
Western Union Telegraph Company—message envelopes
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4
5
Western Union Telegraph Company—messages sent report
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1881
4
6
Western Union Telegraph Company—telegram franks
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1868-1908
4
7
Western Union Telegraph Company—advertisements
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4
8
Western Union Telegraph Company—correspondence
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1869-1915
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Western Union Telegraph Company—memoranda
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1912
5
2
Western Union Telegraph Company—stock information
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1875-
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3
Western Union Telegraph Company—Supply Department
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1867-
5
4
Western Union Telegraph Company—bulletins, forms and publications about cables, messages and letters
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5
5
Western Union Telegraph Company—general publications
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5
6
Western Union Telegraph Company—images
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5
7
William E. Hawks
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Telegrams sent and received
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Telegrams sent and received
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8
1-4
Railroad Companies
1.3
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Allegheny Valley Rail Road Company
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5
8
Boston and Maine Railroad
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5
9
Central Vermont Railroad
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5
10
New York Central Railroad Company
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5
11
New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company
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5
12
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
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5
13
Old Colony and Newport Railway
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5
14
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
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5
15
Sullivan Railroad Company
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5
16
Union Pacific Railway
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5
17
Vermont Valley and Sullivan County Railroads
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5
18
Telephone Companies
1.4
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Glen Telephone Company
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5
19
Hudson River Telephone Company
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5
20
Telephone Company of Philadelphia
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5
21
Telegraph Supply Companies
1.5
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J.H, Bunnell and Company
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5
22
J.A. Caldwell and Company
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5
23
C.T. and J.N. Chester
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1857; 1865
5
24
A.S. Chubbuck
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1867-1871
5
25
James J. Clark and Company
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5
26
E.S. Greeley and Company
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1894-1896
5
27
Thomas Hall, 1858; 1865
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5
28
Hinds and Williams
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1857
5
29
King and Company
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1865
5
30
J.H. Longstreet
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1885
5
31
J.Hall Rohrman and Son
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1878
5
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W.C, Sterling and Son
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5
33
Telegraph Supply and Manufacturing Company
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5
34
L.G, Tillotson and Company. 1869-1884
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5
35
Charles Williams Jr.
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1870
5
36
Serials
1.6
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The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Nov. 1887-April 1888
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5
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Journal of the Telegraph
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February 20, 1889
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The Operator
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October 1, 1879
5
39
Publications
1.7
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Alexander Graham Bell
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5
40
Fifty Years of Telephone Progress
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1876-1926
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41
Early History of the Electric Telegraph
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1881
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42
United States Postal Telegraph, undated,
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5
43
Reports of selected cases argued and decided in circuit and district court (Kentucky)
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1848
5
44
Outlines of the History of Telegraphs in Japan, undated
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6
1
Operators' Manual of Telegraph, undated
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6
2
How to make an experimental wireless telegraph outfit
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1906
6
3
The Telegraph Monopoly, undated
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6
4
Atlantic Cable Album, undated
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6
5
William Williams v. Western Union
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1881
6
6
Sermon on the Completion of the Atlantic Telegraph by William Sprague. 1858
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6
7
Copies of all legal and scientific opinions showing House's Printing Telegraph to be independent of all other inventions
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1849
6
8
A Talk on Telegraphic Topics, undated
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6
9
Synchronous Multiplex Telegraphy, undated
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6
10
Senate. Report on Postal Telegraph
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1884
6
11
Die Elektromagnetilchen Apparate
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1872
6
12
Bildergallerie fur die Jugend
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1831
6
13
Deutsch-Atlantische Telegraphengesellschaft
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6
14
Extracts from speech of Hon. Samuel W. Smith in the House of Representatives
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1908
6
15
The American Inventors of the Telegraph, undated
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6
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The Patent Decision, undated
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6
17
Miscellaneous
1.8
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Clippings about telegraphy
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6
18
Patents for Gilbert A. Cassagnes
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1884-1885
6
19
Cyrus W. Field
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6
20
Samuel F.B. Morse
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6
21
Adams Express Company
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6
22
Gray National Telautograph Company
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6
23
Messenger Telegraph Association
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6
24
Morse School of Telegraphy
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6
25
Miscellaneous folder
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6
26
Oversize
2
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Materials relate to telegraph service in the United States. The oversize items are comprised of printed advertisements. The material dates from the early twentieth century and is arranged alphabetically by company.
Telegraph
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Clark Wireless Telegraph & Telephone Company
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61
7
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Detroit, Michigan
Elmira Telegram
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61
7
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Location unknown
General, Telegraph
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1863-1903
SUPP
31
8
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Business records include correspondence, receipts, and telegrams.Descriptive Story of the Telegraphone, booklet (1907). Ribbon commemorating the laying of the Atlantic cable.
Cyrus W Field Lovett Medal
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1858
1
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[Metal type unassessed, was issued in white metal and also in silver]. Struck by George Hampden Lovett, New York. [verify with/without date variant].
Telegraph
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