Manuscripts

The Atlantic telegraph: manuscript

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Description: This is an anonymous contemporary account of the cable-laying for the Atlantic Telegraph.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1866.
Call number: mssHM 81073
Provenance: Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006. J. J. G. McCue gave this item to the Burndy Library in June 1972. He received it from E. K. Gannett.
Dimensions: 33 cm :
Associated people: McCue, John Joseph Gerald, (1913-)
Associated organization: Burndy Library,
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Cheadle and Gatley photographic record: manuscript

Manuscripts

This manuscript, which includes photographs, is a record of the substations, transformers, cable laying, and the like used for the electrification of the Cheadle and Gatley area near Manchester, England in 1922 to 1925. The photographs show equipment, material, buildings, and the people involved in the work. All of the photographs are labeled.

mssHM 72225

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Charles V. Walker papers

Manuscripts

All of these letters deal with the business of the Atlantic Telegraph Company and the telegraph cable. The majority of the letters are written to Charles V. Walker (although there are four written by him). The authors of the letters include: Wildman Whitehouse, chief electrician of the Atlantic Telegraph Company (6); George Saward, secretary of the Atlantic Telegraph Company (6); Robert Main of the Royal Observatory (1); and Thomas Pollock (1). There are also three pieces of ephemera.

mssHM 81185-81204

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Henry Labouchere letters to Robert Giffen

Manuscripts

Four letters written by Henry Labouchere in London to "Giffin." Three of the four letters reference Alexander McEwen negatively, suggesting that McEwen was manipulating cable company shares. The fourth letter, written on Direct United States Cable Company Limited letterhead, concerns the progress of laying telegraph cable.

mssHM 82705-82708

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Thomas T. Eckert manuscript account book

Manuscripts

Personal account book of Thomas T. Eckert, the head of the Washington office of the United States Military Telegraph, for the year 1864. The manuscript fills a Pocket Diary 1864 (New York: Published Annually for the Trade); a 2 cent U.S. revenue stamp is affixed to the title page (an unusual version of the Liberty head).

mssHM 83457

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Mixmaster: Atlantic Boulevard

Manuscripts

Includes records related to the improvement of the intersection of Atlantic Blvd. and Telegraph Road; East Los Angeles Railroad Station.

mssMolina

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Offices Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co

Manuscripts

222 pages; 33 x 11 cm. Below title on front cover: Jay Gould. Memoranda book listing for Jay Gould listing offices in the United States and Canada; next to the listed office are numbers, perhaps the number of words sent. The total number of telegraph offices and perhaps the number of words sent are tabulated on p. 216-217.

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