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A Field Telegraph Station in the 1860s
Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society |
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Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society, [Digital ID, nhnycw/ad ad01002] |
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First Telegraph Message
Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years
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Library of Congress, Manuscript Division Reproduction Number: A97 (color slide)
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Wireless telegraph instruments.
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933
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Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0001304. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society
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Three-quarter length portrait of Jack Binnes, wireless operator, using a telegraph machine at a desk in a room in Chicago, Illinois.
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 |
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Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0054177. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society. |
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Alexander Graham Bell's design sketch of the telephone, ca. 1876.
Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years
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Library of Congress, Manuscript Division
Reproduction Number:
A8 (color slide; front); A9 (color slide; verso); LC-MSS-51268-6 (B&W negative; front)
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Model of Bell's telephone
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 |
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection. LC-D420-2586 DLC (b&w glass neg.)
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Two Chicago Daily News telephone operators sitting at a switchboard
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 |
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Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0001438. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society. |
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Telegraph Symbols
The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1. General Correspondence. 1651-1827
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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Manuscript Division
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Samuel Morse, self-portrait
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 |
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection. LC-D413-24 DLC (b&w glass neg.)
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