Stephen Prigozy telegraph collection, circa 1844-2016.
Collection Number: 4739
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Stephen Prigozy telegraph collection, circa 1844-2016.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4739
Abstract:
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.
Creator:
Prigozy, Stephen
Coe, Lewis, 1911-
French, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Brown), 1800-1870.
Kramer, George J.
Russell, R. W.
Rogers, Henry J., 1811-1879.
Morse Telegraph Club
Green, Eckert, Sibley (Firm)
Wade, Orton (Firm)
Quanitities:
2.5 cubic feet.
1 mapcase folders.
Language:
Collection material mainly in English
Cornell University Class of 1952 (Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, 1953). Prigozy
went on to become a professor of electrical engineering at the United States Merchant
Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York.
Photographs, correspondence, telegraph equipment and ephemera including a Western
Union doll, telegrams, stock certificates, periodicals, pamphlets, sales catalogs,
posters, stamps, and other items relating to the history of the telegraph, mainly
in the United States, beginning before the Civil War. The collection includes various
publications and objects relating to Western Union in particular, as well as American
Rapid Telegraph Company, Atlantic Telegraph Company, U.S. Telegraph Company, Wells
Fargo, Nichols Electric Company, and the United States Army Signal Corps. Authors
of other publications include R.W. Russell of American Telegraph Company; the Morse
Telegraph Club; firms Green, Eckert, Sibley and Wade, Orton; and Stephen Prigozy himself,
who published a number of articles on the telegraph. Also included are copies of items
from the collections of Prigozy's fellow telegraphy collector George Jay Kramer; letters
from Lewis B. Coe, the author of a book on the telegraph; and a television script
concerning Cyrus Field, a promoter of the transatlantic cable.
Technical items in the collection include telegraph senders and receivers, insulators,
Western Union code books, switchboard specifications from 1929, a U.S. Army Signal
Corps relay, a Vibroplex relay, catalogs of telegraph equipment, and issues of Western
Union's periodical, Technical review.
Also included in the collection are two volumes documenting the court case, Benjamin
B. French et al. vs. Henry J. Rogers et al. (1850-1851), concerning a telegraph patent.
Collection also includes photographs, clippings, and correspondence concerning the
early history of the telephone.
Also digital materials including images of many items from the collection, presentations
given by Prigozy and other files relating to the collection and telegraph research.
Books (approximately 21 additional cubic feet) are cataloged individually.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Stephen Prigozy Telegraph Collection, #4739. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Related material located in Robert Dalton Harris, Jr. telegraph collection, #8720.
Names:
Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892.
Western Union Telegraph Company
American Rapid Telegraph Company
Atlantic Telegraph Co
U.S. Telegraph Company
Wells, Fargo & Company
Nichols Electric Company
United States. Army. Signal Corps
Subjects:
Telephone -- History.
Transatlantic cables.
Telegraph -- Europe -- History.
Telegraph -- United States -- History.
Form and Genre Terms:
Stock certificates.
Telegrams.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Historical
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General Historical
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Morse's Patent: Full Exposure of Dr. Charles T. Jackson's Pretensions to the Invention
of the American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph (2 manuscripts)
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1852, 1867 |
Scope and Contents
by Hon. Amos Kendall
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Print of a portrait of Samuel Morse and a list of names that includes his signature
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Undated |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Map of the Submarine Telegraph between American and Europe
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1858 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
The Safety and Insulated Wire & Cable Co. Correspondence
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1898-1900 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Clipping & Chronologies
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1941, 1944 |
Scope and Contents
"Early History of the Telegraph" newspaper clipping, "Chronology of the Electric Spark",
"Chronology of Telegraph Communications"
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Centennial of the Telegraph
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1944 |
Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Burlingame Telegraphing Typewriter
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1908-1912 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Emulation and Invention
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1981 |
Scope and Contents
by Brooke Hindle
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Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Guide to Morse Exhibit by Karpeles Manuscript Library
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May 26-27, 1990 |
Box 1 | Folder 10 |
150th Anniversary of the First Electromagnetic Telegraph
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1994 |
Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Historical Publications
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1998 |
Scope and Contents
"Jeptha H. Wade and the Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company" by Russel H. Anderson,
"Marconi's History" by Gian Carlo Corazza, "From Connections to Collections" by Henry
Petroski
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Box 1 | Folder 12 |
The Extension of Submarine Telegraphy in a Quarter-Century
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n.d. |
Scope and Contents
by Charles Bright
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Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Binder: Copies of Collection of George Jay Kramer on Early Telegraph History
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1846-1870 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Copies from the Collection of George J. Kramer
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1848-1865 |
Box 1 | Folder 15-16 |
Copies of articles about history of telegraph (1-2)
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n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 17-18 |
Material copied from internet about telegraph from c. late 1800s (1-2)
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n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 19-22 |
Copied materials on telegraph history (1-4)
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n.d. |
Box 9 | Folder 1-5 |
Historical Research (1-5)
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n.d. |
Box 18 | Folder 12 |
Stock and Bond Materials
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1883-1913 |
Box 18 | Folder 12 |
List of Telegraph Offices and Calls of New York Central and Hudson River Railroad
-- copy
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August 1, 1875 |
Box 18 | Folder 12 |
"WGY Heard on an Indoor Aerial at Liverpool"
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December 28, 1922-January 3, 1923 |
Scope and Contents
Including correspondence with General Electric
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Box 18 | Folder 12 |
Photograph of River Street -- copy
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1891 |
Box 20 | Folder 11 |
Guglielmo Marconi research
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1899, 1994-1995 |
Mapcase Folder 1 |
Postal Telegraph Cable Co. Poster, Reproduction of Map of Telegraph Lines, Enlargement
of one section of 1853 map, Reproduction of Patent Design for Edison's Automatic Telegraph
Perforator & Transmitter
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1853 | |
Mapcase Folder 1 |
Map of the West India and Panama Telegraph Company
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May 1874 | |
S. Prigozy Research
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Box 16 | Folder 1 |
Concentrated Arc-Lamp
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n.d. |
Box 16 | Folder 2 |
Internet Telegraph Info
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n.d. |
Box 16 | Folder 3 |
Atlantic Cable
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n.d. |
Box 16 | Folder 4 |
Hawaiian Telegraph
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1903-1951 |
Box 16 | Folder 5 |
Western Union
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1924-1932, 1994-1999 |
Box 16 | Folder 6 |
Research on New Developments
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1949-1984 |
Scope and Contents
News clippings, advertisements, also includes outline for retirement party of J.W.
Inwood
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Box 16 | Folder 7 |
Essays on Radio History
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1960s |
Box 16 | Folder 8 |
Braille-Gram
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1975 |
Scope and Contents
Press releases, photographs, news clippings
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Box 16 | Folder 9 |
Insulators
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1993, 2004 |
Box 16 | Folder 10 |
Ezra Cornell/Cornell Library
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1995-1996 |
Box 16 | Folder 11 |
Info on Telegrams and Covers
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1994-2006, 2012 |
Scope and Contents
Auction lists, photocopies
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Box 16 | Folder 12 |
Telephone
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1994-1995 |
Box 16 | Folder 13 |
Talk Given by S. Prigozy -- Telegraph Similitudes Used as Early Junk Mail
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n.d. |
Box 16 | Folder 14 |
Notes on Books
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n.d. |
Box 16 | Folder 15 |
Bibliographies
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1996-1999 |
Box 16 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence with Robert Dalton Harris
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1993-2008 |
Scope and Contents
Harris is a dealer in telegraphica from West Sand Lake, NY and friend who worked with
his wife Diane DeBlois at a business called AGatherin'
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Box 16 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence with Lewis B. Coe
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1994-2001 |
Scope and Contents
Author of two books in the collection, one on telegraph and one of telephone
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Box 16 | Folder 18 |
Correspondence with Bob Voss
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1998 |
Scope and Contents
"Another 'telegraph pal' -- Bob Voss visited us twice in Averill Park"
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Box 16 | Folder 19 |
Stamp Catalog
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n.d. |
Box 16 | Folder 20 |
Sales Catalogs
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1977, 1997-1999 |
Box 16 | Folder 21 |
Auction Catalog for Collection of George J. Kramer
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September 15, 1990 |
Box 16 | Folder 22 |
Auction Research
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1992-2005 |
Box 16 | Folder 23 |
Philatelic Dealers
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1993, 2013 |
Box 16 | Folder 24 |
Auction Lots, News Clippins and Articles
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1989, 1998-2006, 2014 |
Box 16 | Folder 25 |
Price Lists
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2005-2013 |
Box 16 | Folder 26 |
Misc. Small S. Prigozy Materials
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n.d. |
Scope and Contents
Labels, "telegram" to S. Prigozy, Ghana envelope, Tress brochure
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Box 16 | Folder 26 |
Auction Catalog "Western Electric Telephone Apparatus and Supplies"
CD-2413 |
2002 |
Box 16 | Folder 27 |
Stephen Prigozy Membership to Morse Telegraph Club
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1997, 2012 |
Box 16 | Folder 28 |
"Cyrus Field" TV Script
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May 17, 1954 |
Scope and Contents
by Warner Law
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Box 16 | Folder 43 |
Correspondence with David Hochfelder and Jeff Meador
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2008 |
Scope and Contents
Letters mention "Bob" who is Robert Dalton Harris.
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Box 18 | Folder 8 |
Periodical Guide
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1852-1868 |
Scope and Contents
Dates refer to highlighted/listed issues of interest
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Periodicals and Congressional Serials
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Box 10 | Folder 2 |
24th-33rd Congress House and Senate Documents
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1837-1854 |
Box 10 | Folder 3 |
34th Congress House Documents
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1856 |
Box 10 | Folder 4 |
35th Congress Senate and House Documents
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1858-1860 |
Box 10 | Folder 5 |
36th-39th Congress House and Senate Documents
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1861-1866 |
Box 10 | Folder 6 |
40th & 41st Congress House and Senate Reports
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1869-1871 |
Box 10 | Folder 7 |
US House Report Postal Telegraph in the United States
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1870 |
Box 11 | Folder 1 |
43rd-45th Congress House and Senate Documents
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1875-1879 |
Box 11 | Folder 2 |
42nd Congress House and Senate Documents
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1872-1874 |
Box 11 | Folder 3 |
46th-48th Congress Senate and House Documents
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1881-1885 |
Box 11 | Folder 4 |
Senate Report on the Postal Telegraph
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1884 |
Box 11 | Folder 5 |
49th Congress House and Senate Documents (1)
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1886 |
Box 11 | Folder 6 |
49th Congress House and Senate Documents (2)
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1885, 1887 |
Box 12 | Folder 1 |
50th Congress House and Senate Documents
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1888 |
Box 12 | Folder 2 |
51st-54th Congress House and Senate Documents
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1890-1896 |
Box 12 | Folder 3 |
55th Congress House and Senate Documents
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1897 |
Box 12 | Folder 4 |
56th Congress House and Senate Documents
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1900-1901 |
Box 12 | Folder 5 |
57th and 58th House and Senate Documents
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1902-1904 |
Box 12 | Folder 6 |
Report of the Superintendent of the Census
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1852 |
Box 12 | Folder 7 |
Speech by S.R. Peters on the Telegraph Monopoly
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1888 |
Box 12 | Folder 8 |
Hearings on the Subtext of Government Ownership and Control of the Telegraph Lines
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1894 |
Box 12 | Folder 9 |
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania vs. The Western Union Telegraph Co.
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1881 |
Box 13 | Folder 12 |
Report on the Survey of Laying Cable between the U.S. and Hawaii
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1892 |
Box 13 | Folder 13 |
A Guide to Documents in the Congressional Series Relating to the Telegraph
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Box 13 | Folder 14 |
A Review of an Argument in Support of the Limited Post and Telegraph
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1891 |
Box 13 | Folder 15 |
Rates of Pay for Communication by Telegraph
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1904 |
Box 13 | Folder 16 |
Post Master General Report
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1845 |
Box 13 | Folder 17 |
Government Ownership of the Telegraph and Telephone
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n.d. |
Box 13 | Folder 18 |
The Great Telegraph Suit of Samuel F.B. Morse and Alfred Vail vs. Francis O.J. Smith
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1858 |
Box 13 | Folder 19 |
New York Senate Memorial and an Act of the Maine Legislature
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1861, 1876 |
Box 18 | Folder 4 |
Issue of New York Weekly Tribune
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1843 |
Box 18 | Folder 4 |
Issue of Boston Recorder and Telegraph
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1827 |
Box 18 | Folder 5 |
Issues of The Illustrated London News
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1856-1859, 1866-1867 |
Box 18 | Folder 5 |
Issues of Harper's Weekly
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1865-1872 |
Box 18 | Folder 6 |
Issue of New York Observer
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1838 |
Box 18 | Folder 6 |
Issue of New York Daily Tribune
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1843 |
Box 18 | Folder 7 |
Issues of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newsletter
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1879-1886 |
Box 18 | Folder 7 |
Issue of New-Orleans Commercial Bulletin
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January 10, 1870 |
Box 18 | Folder 7 |
Issue of The World Morning Courier and New York Enquirer
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October 26, 1861 |
Box 18 | Folder 7 |
Issue of National Intelligencer
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July 17, 1849 |
Photographs and prints
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Box 16 | Folder 29 |
Historical Photos and Illustrations
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1844-1890, 1924-1929, 1937 |
Box 16 | Folder 44 |
Color print of a section of the Atlantic Cable, Carried by Adams & Cos Express Wagon
in the Procession of the 1st September
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Undated |
Box 31 |
Framed Photo: Section of the Atlantic Cable, Carried by Adams & Cos Express Wagon
in the Procession of the 1st September
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n.d. | |
Box 16 | Folder 30 |
Post Cards
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1906, 1910, n.d. |
Scope and Contents
2 photos featuring WU employees, 1906 features ruins of workshop where Morse invented
the telegraph
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Box 16 | Folder 31 |
Western Union: Los Angeles (1)
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1939, 1952-1977 |
Scope and Contents
People, Sales Meetings
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Box 16 | Folder 32 |
Western Union: Los Angeles (2)
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1940, 1960, 1962, 1977 |
Scope and Contents
People, Sales Meetings
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Box 16 | Folder 33 |
Western Union Photographs (1)
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1928-1941, 1958, 1970 |
Box 16 | Folder 34 |
Western Union Photographs (2)
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1939-1940, 1953, 1959 |
Box 16 | Folder 35 |
Western Union Photographs (3)
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1932, 1945, 1956-1959 |
Box 16 | Folder 36 |
Western Union Photographs (4)
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1945, 1949, 1960 |
Box 16 | Folder 37 |
Hollywood-Related Photos
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1940, 1955 |
Box 16 | Folder 38 |
Small Photographs
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n.d. |
Scope and Contents
Some labeled "Inglewood, Calif."
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Box 16 | Folder 39 |
Misc. Photographs
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n.d. |
Scope and Contents
Kodak Envelope of Photos and Negatives, Photographs of Railroads, WU Photographs,
Otto Rothschild Negative
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Box 16 | Folder 40 |
Photograph of Man in Telegraph Office
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n.d. |
Box 16 | Folder 41 |
Photograph of Three Men in Front of a Telegraph Office
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n.d. |
Box 16 | Folder 42 |
Photograph of Telegraph Office
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n.d. |
Box 19 |
Stereo views of the Western Union Telegraph Building and the Ship News Office in New
York City
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n.d. | |
Corporate History
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Western Union
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Box 1 | Folder 7 |
American Telegraphy After 100 Years
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1944 |
Scope and Contents
The Western Union Telegraph Company
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Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Western Union Telegraph Company
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1901 |
Scope and Contents
Historical publication by WU (copy)
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Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Telegraph Companies Forming Western Union
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1914 |
Scope and Contents
From diagrammatic charts prepared by the Western Union Telegraph Company showing its
important constituents as existing on Dec. 31, 1914
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Box 1 | Folder 25 |
WU memos
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1920s |
Box 1 | Folder 26 |
WU Annual Reports
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1924, 1946-1978 |
Box 1 | Folder 27 |
WU Los Angeles Office (1)
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1938-1973 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, press releases, photos, publications. Many materials involve Paramount
Pictures.
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Box 1 | Folder 28 |
WU Los Angeles Office (2)
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1939-1969 |
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, press releases, photos, script entitled "Field and the Atlantic Cable".
Many materials involve Paramount Pictures.
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Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Payments and Bonds
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1871-1874, 1951 |
Scope and Contents
Western Union, Gold & Stock Telegraph Co., bond for Emanuel R. Posnack and Ann B.
Posnack to Century Federal Savings and Loan Association
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Other Companies
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Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Various articles regarding investments and competition between companies
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1881-1930 |
Box 1 | Folder 30 |
Remarks of R.W. Russell of American Telegraph Co. (copy)
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1860 |
Box 1 | Folder 31 |
Correspondence re: Postal Telegraph
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1875-1880 |
Box 1 | Folder 32 |
American Rapid Telegraph Co., Atlantic Telegraph Co., Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph
Co.
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1882-1925 |
Box 1 | Folder 33 |
American Telegraphone Company
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1900-1943 |
Box 1 | Folder 34 |
Bartica Company
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1911, 1915 |
Box 1 | Folder 35 |
Oxford Linen Mills
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1908-1914 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Sterling Debenture Corp. & other fraudulent Co.'s
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1910-1912 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 |
The Telepost Company
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1896-1917 |
Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Booklet on Telepost History, Government Documents on The Telepost, Patents and Biographies
of Patrick Delany
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1908-1925 |
Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Copied Material on Telegraph Companies
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n.d. |
Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Stocks, Bonds, Shares
|
1868-1906 |
Box 17 |
Portfolio: Telegraph Stock Certificates
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1851-1935, 1955-1959, 1970 | |
Box 17 |
Portfolio: Telegraph Stock Certificates
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1889, 1907-1918, 1930 | |
Scope and Contents
Largely Telepost and Bartica Co.
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Box 17 |
Portfolio: Telegraph Stock Certificates
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1888-1904, 1929-1971, 1981 | |
Box 18 | Folder 5 |
Map of West India and Panama Telegraph Co.
|
1874 |
Series II. Technical
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General
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Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Description of the American Electro Magnetic Telegraph
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1845 |
Scope and Contents
by Alfred Vail
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Box 2 | Folder 8 |
US Patent Office: "Improvement in Magnetic Printing-Telegraphs"
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April 18, 1846 |
Scope and Contents
Patent no. 4,464; Royal E. House
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Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Shaffner's Telegraphy Companion Devoted to the Science and Art of the Morse American
Telegraph
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January 1855 |
Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Railroad and Telegraph Rates
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1866, n.d. |
Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Velocity of the Electric Current over Telegraph Wire
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June 1869 |
Scope and Contents
by G. W. Hough, A. M.
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Box 2 | Folder 12 |
J.H. Bunnell & Co. Telegraphy Manual
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1883-1900 |
Box 2 | Folder 13 |
"Recent Contributions to Electric Wave Telegraphy"
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1907 |
Scope and Contents
by Prof. J. A. Fleming
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Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Telegraphy Guides
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1910s, 1930s |
Scope and Contents
Instructional booklets on telegraphy engineering and operation by various companies
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Box 2 | Folder 15 |
Misc. reports and booklets from WU
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early 1900s |
Scope and Contents
Delicate
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Box 2 | Folder 16 |
The World's Work: Pirates of Promotion
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1919 |
Scope and Contents
by Tal. P. Shaffner, Esq.
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Box 2 | Folder 17 |
WU Office Documents, Employee Publications & Correspondence
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1921- 1927, 1951-1981 |
Scope and Contents
Includes brochure titled The Story of the Telemeter.
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Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Specifications for the Installation of Double Conductor Cordless Cabinet Type Switchboards
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June 26, 1929 |
Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Misc. Publications
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1949, n.d. |
Scope and Contents
"Power Supply for Low Power Radio Installation on Cabooses", "The Application of Facsimile
to Commercial Radio Communications"
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Box 2 | Folder 20 |
WU TELEX/TWX Guides
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1975 |
Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Catalog of Telegraph Keys of US Army Signal Corps
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1993-1997 |
Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Correspondence re: Canadian Telegraphs
|
2003-2004 |
Scope and Contents
Regarding primarily mid. 1800s
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Box 2 | Folder 23 |
Various Telegraph Books & Reports
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Box 2 | Folder 24 |
WU code books
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n.d. |
Box 2 | Folder 25 |
Desk-Fax
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n.d. |
Scope and Contents
Includes newspaper clipping and press release
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Box 2 | Folder 26 |
Grove Cell/Carbon Battery Drawing
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n.d. |
Box 2 | Folder 27 |
"The Story of the Greetings Telegraph Service in Great Britain"
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n.d. |
Scope and Contents
by John C. W. Field, F.R.G.S.
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Box 3 |
Binder: Machines & Batteries, etc.; Telephones; Incandescent Lamps (1)
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1886-1935, 1956-1958 | |
Scope and Contents
Most pages labelled "Electrical Machines"
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Box 3 |
Binder: Machines & Batteries, etc.; Telephones; Incandescent Lamps (2)
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1886-1938, 1965 | |
Scope and Contents
Batteries, Lightning Rods
|
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Box 3 |
Binder: Machines & Batteries, etc.; Telephones; Incandescent Lamps (3)
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1886-1918, 1929-1944 | |
Scope and Contents
Incandescent Lamps
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Box 3 |
Binder: Machines & Batteries, etc.; Telephones; Incandescent Lamps (4)
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1878-1943 | |
Scope and Contents
Telephones
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Box 4 |
Binder: Telegraph Equipment, Telegraph Schools & other items
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1848-1930 | |
Box 4 |
Binder: Cable Rates and Corporate Correspondence
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1921-1937 | |
Scope and Contents
WU, Postal Telegraph, RCA Communications, C. Bensinger Co., French Telegraph Cable
Company, correspondence with various companies regarding telegraph services
|
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Periodicals and Journals
|
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Box 2 | Folder 28 |
Telegraph & Telephone Stamp Society and Journal of the Telegraph Study Circle: Bulletin
and Across the Wire Issues
|
1987-1990 |
Box 2 | Folder 29 |
Harper's New Monthly Magazine: "The Telegraph"
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n.d. |
Box 2 | Folder 30 |
Scribner's Monthly: "Telegraphing in Battle"
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May 1886 |
Scope and Contents
by J. Emmett O'Brien
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Box 2 | Folder 31 |
McClure's Magazine: "Marconi's Wireless Telegraph"
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June 1899 |
Scope and Contents
by Cleveland Moffett
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Box 2 | Folder 32 |
Issues of Journal Telegraph
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1910-1912 |
Box 2 | Folder 33 |
"Beiblätter zu den Annalen der Physik"
|
1912 |
Box 2 | Folder 34 |
Proceedings of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
|
March 1906, May 1911 |
Box 2 | Folder 35 |
Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers
|
February 1924 |
Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Antique Wireless Association: The Federal Telegraph Company 1909-1920
|
1979 |
Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Telegraph World
|
May 1930 |
Box 3 | Folder 3 |
WU Publications
|
1939-1967 |
Scope and Contents
Telegraph News, Telegraph World, The Monitor
|
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Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Scientific American Articles
|
July 1962, August 1975 |
Scope and Contents
"Telephone Switching" (July 1962), "How there came to be only one telephone company
in town" (August 1975)
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Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Postal History Journal
|
June 2012 |
Scope and Contents
Includes article by Stephen Prigozy
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Box 3 | Folder 6 |
WU Technical Review
|
1947 |
Box 3 | Folder 7 |
WU Technical Reviews
|
1949-1951 |
Box 4 | Folder 1 |
WU Technical Reviews
|
1951-1954 |
Box 4 | Folder 2 |
WU Technical Reviews
|
1955-1957 |
Box 4 | Folder 3 |
WU Technical Reviews
|
1958-1961 |
Box 17 |
Issues of "The Operator"
|
1874-1876, 1883 | |
Box 18 | Folder 1 |
Issues of Scientific American
|
1877, 1884, 1893-1896, 1902-1903, 1909 |
Scope and Contents
Includes 50th Anniversary issue
|
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Box 18 | Folder 2 |
Issues of Journal of the Telegraph
|
1868 |
Box 18 | Folder 3 |
Issues of Electric Age
|
January 1891 |
Box 20 | Folder 12 |
"The Federal Telegraph Company"
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1979 |
Scope and Contents
by Thorn L. Mayes
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Box 20 | Folder 13 |
Proceedings of the IEEE
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September 1976 |
Box 20 | Folder 14 |
Tele
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1953 |
Scope and Contents
English edition, No. 1
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Box 20 | Folder 15 |
Dots and Dashes
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2016 |
Series III. Telegrams
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Pre-Civil War
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Box 5 |
Pre-Civil War Binder: New York Hinterland Lines
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1848-1864 | |
Box 5 |
Pre-Civil War Binder: Old West Lines
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1847-1866, 1882 | |
Box 5 |
Pre-Civil War Binder: American Telegraph Co. & U.S. Telegraph Co.
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1856-1866, 1916 | |
Box 5 |
Pre-Civil War Binder: New Orleans Hinterland Lines & New West Lines
|
1848-1868 | |
Box 5 |
Pre-Civil War Binder: New York to Boston Lines
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1847-1862 | |
Box 6 |
Pre-Civil War Binder: Mid Atlantic Hinterland Lines & Boston Hinterland Lines
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1847-1919 | |
Box 6 |
Pre-Civil War Binder: Washington to New York Lines, Boston to Canada Lines, Washington
to New Orleans Lines
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1847-1862, 1888 | |
Small Companies Alpha
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Box 6 |
Binder: Telegrams from small companies, A & B
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1856-1891 | |
Box 6 |
Binder: Telegrams from small companies, C to L
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1862-1906, 1923-1948 | |
Box 7 |
Binder: Telegrams from small companies, M to Ne
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1855-1907, 1917, 1937-1938 | |
Box 7 |
Binder: Telegrams from small companies, New to O
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1868-1911, 1936 | |
Box 7 |
Binder: Telegrams from small companies, P to R
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1855-1875, 1888-1915 | |
Box 7 |
Binder: Telegrams from small companies, S to Z
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1852-1905, 1925 | |
Western Union
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Box 8 |
Binder: WU Telegrams & Envelopes -- Green
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1878-1898 | |
Box 8 |
Binder: WU Telegrams & Envelopes -- Eckert
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1893-1904 | |
Box 8 |
Binder: WU Telegrams & Envelopes -- Sibley & Wade
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1851-1869 | |
Box 8 |
Binder: WU Telegrams & Envelopes -- Orton
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1867-1879, 1914 | |
Box 9 |
Binder: WU Telegrams & Envelopes -- Clowry & Vail
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1903-1922 | |
Box 9 |
Binder: WU Telegrams & Envelopes -- Carlton
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1916-1941 | |
Box 9 |
Binder: WU Telegrams & Envelopes -- Williams et al.
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1943-1975, 1983-1985 | |
Box 9 |
Binder: WU Telegrams & Envelopes -- Business
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1867-1923, 1937-1952 | |
Box 10 |
Binder: WU Illustrated Telegrams -- Holiday, Santagram, New Years, Thanksgiving
|
1909-1936, 1947-1966 | |
Scope and Contents
Many blanks
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Box 10 |
Binder: WU Illustrated Telegrams -- Easter, Valentine, Birthday
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1925-1962 | |
Scope and Contents
Many blanks
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Box 10 |
Binder: WU Illustrated Telegrams -- Mother's Day, Father's Day, Anniversary, Bon Voyage,
Social Message
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1923-1936, 1949-1955 | |
Scope and Contents
Many blanks
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Box 10 |
Binder: WU Illustrated Telegrams -- World's Fair, Congrats, Wedding, Gift Order, etc.
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1930-1940, 1949-1960 | |
Scope and Contents
Many blanks
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Box 10 | Folder 1 |
WU Telegrams
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1920-1941, 1953-1954 |
Box 6 | Folder 1 |
WU Melody-Grams
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1966 |
Box 6 | Folder 2 |
WU Melody-Grams
|
1966 |
Box 6 | Folder 3 |
Telegrams and Telegraph Blanks
|
1860s-1870s, 1930s |
Scope and Contents
Blanks and telegrams from 1860s-1870s, illustrated telegrams, WU Money Order blanks,
telegrams on authenticity research by film studios
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Box 6 | Folder 4 |
Duplicate Illustrated Telegrams
|
n.d. |
Box 11 |
Binder: Western Union Telegrams
|
1867-1954 | |
Box 7 | Folder 1 |
Western Union Telegrams to C.E. Hartung & Co.
|
1867-1875 |
Foreign
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Box 13 |
Binder: Telegrams -- Europe
|
1852-1953 | |
Box 13 |
Binder: Telegrams -- Foreign
|
1891-1966 | |
Box 13 |
Binder: Telegrams -- Canada
|
1853-1955 | |
Scope and Contents
Some international, many American District Telegraph Co. at end of binder
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Box 13 | Folder 1 |
German Telegrams
|
1920s |
Box 13 | Folder 2 |
German Booklets
|
1899, 1909 |
Scope and Contents
"Der Derband mittlerer Reichs=Post=und Telegraphen=Beamten", "Telegraphenwegegefek"
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Box 13 | Folder 3 |
English Telegrams
|
n.d. |
Box 13 | Folder 4 |
French Telegrams
|
n.d. |
Box 13 | Folder 5 |
Misc. Foreign Telegrams
|
1895-1947 |
Scope and Contents
Japan, India, Australia & China, Denmark
|
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Box 13 | Folder 6 |
Misc. Foreign Telegrams
|
1864, 1883-1910s |
Scope and Contents
Germany, Argentina, others (in oversized folder)
|
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General
|
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Box 7 | Folder 2 |
Art-Grams
|
1979 |
Box 7 | Folder 3 |
Duplicate Postal Telegraph Telegrams
|
1898-1942 |
Box 7 | Folder 4 |
Duplicate Telegrams (Other)
|
1850s-1930s |
Box 11 |
Binder: Railroad Telegrams
|
1859-1926 | |
Box 11 |
Binder: Military Telegrams
|
1862-1875, 1904-1944 | |
Box 12 |
Binder: Postal Telegraph Business Stationary
|
1886-1933, 1942-1947 | |
Box 12 |
Binder: Postal Telegraph Illustrated Telegrams
|
1925-1942 | |
Box 12 |
Binder: Postal Telegraph Telegrams I
|
1885-1914 | |
Box 12 |
Binder: Postal Telegraph Telegrams II
|
1891-1943 | |
Box 5 | Folder 1-5 |
Telegraph Covers & Messages: Collection of Stephen Prigozy (1-5)
|
1993 |
Scope and Contents
Consists of Xerox copies of the telegrams & envelopes
|
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Box 13 | Folder 7 |
Facsimile of Letter from Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, recommending Allcock's Porous Plasters
|
February 11, 1890 |
Box 13 | Folder 8 |
Overseas Telegrams from Lawrence C. Hopkins to Julie Hall
|
1942-1943 |
Box 13 | Folder 9 |
Joseph E. Greene Co. Orders
|
1910-1914 |
Box 13 | Folder 10 |
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America Shipment Forms
|
1910s |
Box 13 | Folder 11 |
Norfolk and Western Railway Co. Telegraphs
|
1900-1909 |
Box 13 |
Binder: Radiograms
|
1878-1963 | |
Box 14 |
Binder: Telegraph Post Cards
|
1898-1914, 1929-1935 | |
Scope and Contents
Plus some unbound pages
|
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Box 14 |
Binder: Telegraph Post Cards
|
1906-1911 | |
Scope and Contents
Includes certificates for S. Prigozy from 2009 Stamp Exposition in side pockets
|
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Box 14 |
Binder: Telegraph Fakes, Fantasies, Similitudes & Spoofs
|
1860s-1945, 1955, 1961-2004 | |
Box 14 | Folder 1 |
Unsorted Telegrams
|
1870s, 1894-1942, 1951 |
Box 14 | Folder 2 |
Unsorted Telegrams
|
1897-1898, 1909-1914 |
Box 14 | Folder 3 |
Unsorted Telegrams
|
1859-1916, 1934-1947, 1963 |
Box 14 | Folder 4 |
Unsorted Telegrams
|
1897, 1891 |
Box 14 | Folder 5 |
Unsorted Telegrams
|
1867-1884, 1906 |
Blanks
|
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Box 15 | Folder 10 |
WU Half Rate Blank
|
1870s |
Box 15 | Folder 11 |
Radiograms (Blank)
|
n.d. |
Box 15 | Folder 12 |
WU Cable Grams (Blank)
|
1900s-1920s |
Box 15 | Folder 13 |
WU Cablegram Blanks
|
n.d. |
Box 15 | Folder 14 |
WU Telegrams for Air Travelers
|
n.d. |
Box 15 | Folder 15 |
WU Telefax Blanks
|
n.d. |
Box 15 | Folder 16 |
WU Blanks for Train Travel
|
n.d. |
Box 15 | Folder 17 |
Florist Telegram Blanks
|
n.d. |
Box 15 | Folder 18 |
Florist Telegram Blanks
|
n.d. |
Box 15 | Folder 19 |
WU Day Letter Blanks
|
n.d. |
Box 15 | Folder 20 |
Telegram Envelopes Blank
|
n.d. |
Box 15 | Folder 21 |
WU Blanks
|
1870s-1910s |
Box 15 | Folder 22 |
WU Blanks (General)
|
1910s |
Box 15 | Folder 23 |
WU Blanks (General)
|
1920s |
Box 15 | Folder 24 |
WU Blanks (General)
|
n.d., 1920s-1930s |
Scope and Contents
One telegram from 1936 regarding stock
|
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Box 15 | Folder 25 |
WU Blanks (General)
|
n.d., 1910s |
Scope and Contents
One booklet with some handwritten messages from JR Bryant
|
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Box 15 | Folder 26-29 |
WU Blanks (General)
|
n.d. |
Box 15 | Folder 30 |
Northern & Western Union Blank -- Used for Short Story
|
n.d. |
Box 15 | Folder 31 |
WU Blanks
|
2009 |
Box 15 | Folder 32 |
Postal Telegraph Blanks
|
n.d., 1930s |
Box 15 | Folder 33 |
Postal Telegraph Blanks
|
n.d., 1920s-1930s |
Box 15 | Folder 34 |
Commercial Union Telegraph Blanks
|
1890s |
Box 15 | Folder 35 |
Telegraph Blank in French
|
n.d. |
Box 15 | Folder 36 |
Facsimile Blanks
|
n.d., 1868, 1900s |
Box 19 |
Postal Telegraph and Western Union (Small Blanks)
|
1900s-1930s, n.d | |
Stamps, Collect Cards, and Passes
|
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Box 8 | Folder 1 |
Telegrams and telegraph stamps
|
1873, 1905, 1932-1945 |
Box 8 | Folder 2 |
Telegraph Stamps
|
1881-1914, 1942-1947, 2004 |
Scope and Contents
Including guide with some photocopies/images
|
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Box 8 | Folder 3 |
Telegraph Stamps
|
1900-1914, 1923, 1942 |
Box 8 | Folder 4 |
Telegraph Stamps
|
1878-1913, 1931-1932 |
Box 8 | Folder 5 |
Various Companies' Stamps
|
1910, 1913, n.d. |
Scope and Contents
Atlantic Telegraph Co., United Wireless, WU
|
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Box 8 | Folder 6 |
Stamps- US Companies
|
1883-1900 |
Box 8 | Folder 7 |
Northern Mutual Stamps
|
n.d. |
Box 8 | Folder 8 |
Postal Telegraph Stamps
|
n.d. |
Box 8 | Folder 9 |
Information about Stamps, News Clippings and Stamp Order Lists
|
1989, 1993, n.d. |
Box 8 | Folder 10 |
Stamps - Canada and an uncut sheet of American Rapid Telegram Stamps
|
1890-1915, n.d. |
Box 4 |
WU Paraphernalia (some Postal Telegraph Co. and Telepost)
|
1877-1962 | |
Scope and Contents
In WU Candygram box: train passes for telegraphers, frank cards and stamp covers,
clerk ID card of Henry C. Giles Jr., WU Money transfer preferred customer card of
S. Prigozy, uniform buttons, WU token, business cards of H. C. Giles, matchbook with
Postsl Telegraph advertisement
|
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Box 19 |
Loose Telegraph Stamps - Various Companies
|
1882-1947, n.d | |
Series IV. Consumer and Publicity
|
|||
Box 4 |
WU Advertisements cut from newspapers
|
1911-1918 | |
Scope and Contents
Removed from non-archival binder. Name and date of publication on reverse.
|
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Box 14 | Folder 6 |
WU Informational/Historical Publications
|
n.d. |
Box 14 | Folder 7 |
WU Promotional Labels
|
n.d. |
Box 14 | Folder 8 |
Trading Cards
|
n.d. |
Box 14 | Folder 9 |
WU Rate Cards
|
n.d. |
Box 14 | Folder 10 |
Messenger's Working Kits
|
n.d. |
Scope and Contents
Postal Telegraph kit of Walt Boldstridge and Western Union
|
|||
Box 14 | Folder 11 |
"Telegraphy Successfully Learned at Home"
|
n.d. |
Scope and Contents
Catalog for The National Automatic Telegraph Transmitter by John M. Smyth Co.
|
|||
Box 14 | Folder 12 |
Sign for "Edison Light"
|
n.d. |
Box 14 | Folder 13 |
WU Posters/Advertisements
|
|
Box 15 | Folder 1 |
WU Advertisements, Half Rate Cards, Receipts, Stamps
|
1873, 1885-1893, 1922, 1941 |
Box 15 | Folder 2 |
Burglar Alarm Telegraph Ad and Telephone Ads
|
1882-1899 |
Box 15 | Folder 3 |
Postal Telegraph Booklets and Cable Codes
|
1894, 1925, 1931 |
Box 15 | Folder 4 |
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. Advertisements
|
1910-1916, 1929 |
Scope and Contents
Cigarette Cards, "Fleish Extract" Trading Cards, L.G. Tillotson & Co. card
|
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Box 15 | Folder 5 |
RCA Booklets
|
1935-1937 |
Box 15 | Folder 6 |
WU Consumer Booklets and Guides
|
1940s-1950s |
Box 15 | Folder 7 |
Electricity: A Modern Power
|
1942 |
Box 15 | Folder 8 |
WU Advertisement
|
March 21, 1949 |
Box 15 | Folder 9 |
WU Booklets
|
1949, 1952 |
Scope and Contents
Includes Budget Book
|
|||
Box 18 | Folder 9 |
Western Union Advertisements, News, Sign
|
1938-1960, 1974 |
Box 18 | Folder 10 |
Western Union Advertising Posters
|
n.d. |
Box 18 | Folder 11 |
Nichols Electric Co. catalog
|
|
Scope and Contents
Copy
|
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Box 20 | Folder 1 |
Advertisements, Brochures, Rates (1)
|
1920s-1930s, 1961, 1964 |
Scope and Contents
Mostly WU, some from Postal Telegraph
|
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Box 20 | Folder 2 |
Advertisements, Brochures, Rates (2)
|
1920s-1940s |
Scope and Contents
Mostly WU, some from Postal Telegraph
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 3 |
Advertisements, Brochures, Rates (3)
|
1920s-1930s |
Scope and Contents
Mostly WU, some from Postal Telegraph
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 4 |
Advertisements, Brochures, Rates (4)
|
1920s-1930s |
Scope and Contents
Mostly WU, some from Postal Telegraph
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 5 |
Advertisements, Blanks, Business Cards, Brochures (1)
|
1920s-1940s |
Scope and Contents
Western Union
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 6 |
Advertisements, Blanks, Business Cards, Brochures (2)
|
1910s-1930s |
Scope and Contents
Western Union
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 7 |
Advertisements, Blanks, Business Cards, Brochures (3)
|
1980s |
Scope and Contents
Western Union
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 8 |
Advertisements, Blanks, Business Cards, Brochures (4)
|
1920s-1940s |
Scope and Contents
Western Union
|
|||
Box 20 | Folder 9 |
Notebook containing business cards and miscellaneous advertising
|
Undated |
Box 20 | Folder 10 |
Instrumentation and Measurement Society newsletter
|
1995 |
Box 19 |
Illustrated Envelopes with Advertising of Telephone and Telegraph Companies (some
with telegrams)
|
1858-1974, n.d. | |
Box 19 |
Postcards with Images and Advertising of Telephone and Telegraph Companies
|
1906-1919, n.d. | |
Series V. Machines and Memorabilia
|
|||
Box 21 | MU-1423 |
Vibroplex #200690
|
n.d. |
Box 21 | MU-1425 |
Bunnell Receiver
|
early 1900s |
Scope and Contents
Type 203, 150 ohms
|
|||
Box 21 | MU-1427 |
Vibroplex Side Swipe Ke sender
|
early 1900s |
Scope and Contents
#99666
|
|||
Box 22 | MU-1422 |
Sender-Signal Electric Mfr. Co.
|
1920s |
Scope and Contents
Buzzer receiver under the hood
|
|||
Box 22 | MU-1428 |
Electronic Instrument co. sender/receiver
|
1950s |
Scope and Contents
L.I.C. 1, NY, Serial #29406, "code oscillator model 706"
|
|||
Box 22 | MU-1430 |
Ted Arnold Telegraph Key Stapler
|
n.d. |
Box 22 | MU-1434 |
WU Call Box 6-B
|
n.d. |
Scope and Contents
#33393
|
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Box 23 | MU-1436 |
Service Buzzer
|
1917 |
Scope and Contents
Stromberg-Carlson Tel. Mfg. Co. Signal Co. Order #9640, includes general instructions
for use
|
|||
Box 24 | MU-1421 |
Jester-Cooper Co. Repeater
|
1914 |
Scope and Contents
Sends and receives. Serial #2031
|
|||
Box 24 | MU-1424 |
Receiver- no name
|
early 1900s |
Scope and Contents
Shows circled N
|
|||
Box 24 | MU-1426 |
WU Combination Relay (i.e. Receiver)
|
1920 |
Scope and Contents
2 noisemakers, 2-C, 150 ohms
|
|||
Box 24 | MU-1431 |
Telegraph Sounder (?)
|
n.d. |
Scope and Contents
"Handmade by Lewis B. Coe Crown Point IN"
|
|||
Box 25 | MU-1435 |
WU Polar Relay
|
1916 |
Scope and Contents
"WU Tel. Co. Ex 3345", "6944 Polar Relay 17-B"
|
|||
Box 26 | MU-1463-1471 |
Box of Brown Ceramic and Plastic Insulators (8 ceramic and 1 plastic)
|
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Box 27 | MU-1472-1483 |
Box of Glass and Ceramic Insulators (11 glass, 1 white ceramic)
|
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Box 28 | MU-1484-1492 |
Box of Glass and Ceramic Insulators (5 glass, 4 brown ceramic)
|
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Box 29 | MU-1493 |
Rubber Insulator
|
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Box 29 | MU-1494-1496 |
3 Ceramic Insulators
|
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Box 29 | MU-1497 |
Glass Insulator (still attached to piece of the telegraph pole)
|
|
Box 29 | MU-1432 |
WU Video Services Clock
|
n.d. |
Box 29 | MU-1433 |
Cable Cross-Section
|
Spring 1966 |
Scope and Contents
"Cheshire Ground Breaking Spring 1966, American Telephone & Telegraph Company West
Haven District"
|
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Box 30 | MU-1438-1439 |
2 Western Union Dolly-Grams: "Just to Say" and "Happy Birthday"
|
Undated |
Box 31 | MU-1440 |
Western Union Paper Holder
|
Undated |
Box 31 | MU-1441 |
Western Union Coaster
|
Undated |
Box 31 | MU-1442 |
Western Union Ash Tray
|
Undated |
Box 31 | MU-1443 |
Western Union Paper Weight
|
Undated |
Box 31 | MU-1444 |
Western Union Ratchet Key
|
Undated |
Box 31 | MU-1445a-c |
Western Union Sign and Pins
|
Undated |
Box 31 | MU-2508 |
Western Union Blank Holder 41-B
|
Undated |
Box 31 | MU-2509 |
Notice about overhead telegraph wires
|
Undated |
Box 31 | MU-1446 |
Commercial Union Telegraph Company Printing Block for 52 cent Stamp
|
Undated |
Box 31 | MU-1447 |
RCA Versawatt Paper Weight
|
Undated |
MU-1429 |
WU Desk-Fax
|
n.d. | |
MU-1437 |
Pen Register
|
n.d. | |
Scope and Contents
J.H. Bunnell & Co. Serial #2 602
|