Telegraph -- History.

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

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Ezra Cornell papers

Mitchell and Barnes families papers

Collection

Identifier: 3785

Abstract

Papers consist primarily of correspondence, land and other legal documents, daybooks, photographs, and clippings. Early documents largely concern the transfer and use of land in central and eastern New York.

Dates: 1791-1999.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Mitchell and Barnes families papers

Samuel F. B. Morse and Alfred Vail telegraph receiver and records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 6830

Scope and content

Dates: 1844-1898.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel F. B. Morse and Alfred Vail telegraph receiver and records