Western Union Telegraph Company
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Cornell University autograph and memorabilia collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093405185]
Identifier: 47-1-3485
Scope and content
Dates:
1870-1952.
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 — Multiple Containers
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
Stephen Prigozy telegraph collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 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.
Dates:
circa 1844-2016.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Stock certificates. 2
- Telegrams. 2
- Telegraph -- Europe -- History. 2
- Telegraph -- United States -- History. 2
- Transatlantic cables 2
- Agriculture -- New York (State) 1
- Cattle -- Breeding -- New York (State) 1
- Coal trade. 1
- Crew. 1
- Families -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
- Georgia -- Description and travel. 1
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- History. 1
- Ithaca (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. 1
- Maine -- Description and travel. 1
- New York (State) -- Politics and government. 1
- Plows -- Maine. 1
- Plows -- New York (State) 1
- Railroads -- New York (State) 1
- Rowing. 1
- Telegraph -- Employees. 1
- Telegraph -- Equipment and supplies. 1
- Telegraph -- History. 1
- Telegraph -- Law and legislation. 1
- Telegraph, Wireless. 1
- Telephone -- History. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives. 1 + ∧ less
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