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Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.

 Person

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Becker-Hull Ezra Cornell and telegraph materials

 Collection
Identifier: 1-1-262
Abstract Notes, letters, documents, and pamphlets relating to Ezra Cornell and to the telegraph, including letters from Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell, the Ithaca Journal, Andrew Dickson White, and T.G. Alvord; letters from Ezra Cornell to J.J. Speed and F.O.J. Smith; letters between Ezra Cornell and William A. Woodward; extracts from Ezra Cornell's private journal; Charles H. Hull's notes on Ezra Cornell; excerpts from letters received by Andrew Dickson White in the first few years of his...
Dates: 1844-1933.

Ezra Cornell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-1-1
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

Telegraphy miscellany

 Collection — Manuscript box 64 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065257481]
Identifier: 4073
Scope and content

Dates: 1914-1961.

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Telegraph -- History. 2
Agriculture -- New York (State) 1
Cattle -- Breeding -- New York (State) 1
Coal trade. 1
Families -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1