Vail Telegraph Collection
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1830-1898, 1912-1917
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10.14 cu. ft. (10 document boxes) (4 half document boxes) (6 16x20 boxes) (oversize material)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7055
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection contains papers concerning the invention and development of the telegraph by Samuel F. B. Morse, Alfred Vail, and others, especially Vail's work with telegraph instruments and operation of telegraph stations, patent litigation, and Vail's publications concerning the telegraph; correspondence between Alfred and George Vail ...
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Northern New York Telegraph and Telephone Company
Sawyer, Alfred P. (Secretary and Treasurer of the Northern New York Telegraph and Telephone Company)
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1881-1887
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0099
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Primarily incoming correspondence to Alfred P. Sawyer of Concord, Massachusetts, Secretary and Treasurer of the Northern New York Telegraph and Telephone Company in Plattsburg, concerning routine activities of the Company. For a time he was stationed in Lowell, Massachusetts, until he resigned in 1887.
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Anglo-American Telegraph Company, Ltd.
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1862-1947
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14 Cubic feet (51 volumes in 44 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0073
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Records relating to the organization of the company, corporate and financial records. Corporate records include two volumes of the company's acts, charters, contracts and agreements, 1862-1883; minutes of board meetings relating to varied subjects, such as agreements between the company and other telegraph companies such as Western Union Telegraph concerning sales of property, details of trnsactions or purchases undertaken by the company. Financial records consist of nine volumes of "journals" showing monthly records of receipts, 1866-1912; nineteen volumes of ledgers reveal a detailed financial status of the company, 1866-1912; and nine volumes of cash books consist of the financial transactions of the company, 1904-early 1941. See also 1 folder of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company telegrams in the Warshaw Collection under the heading "Telegraphs".
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Warshaw, Isadore, 1900-1969
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1863-1903
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3.48 Cubic feet (consisting of 7.5 boxes, 1 folder, 3 oversize folders, 1 map case folder, 1 object, plus digital images of some collection material.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0060.S01.01.Telegraph
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
A New York bookseller, Warshaw assembled this collection over nearly fifty years. The Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Telegraph forms part of the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana, Subseries 1.1: Subject Categories. The Subject Categories subseries is divided into 470 subject categories based on those created by Mr. Warshaw. These subject categories include topical subjects, types or forms of material, people, organizations, historical events, and other categories. An overview to the entire Warshaw collection is available here: Warshaw Collection of Business Americana
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United Telegraph Workers.
Western Union Telegraph Company
- Dates:
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circa 1820-1995
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452 Cubic feet (871 boxes and 23 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0205
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection documents in photographs, scrapbooks, notebooks, correspondence, stock ledgers, annual reports, and financial records, the evolution of the telegraph, the development of the Western Union Telegraph Company, and the beginning of the communications revolution. The collection materials describe both the history of the company and of the telegraph industry in general, particularly its importance to the development of the technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection is useful for researchers interested in the development of technology, economic history, and the impact of technology on American social and cultural life.
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1865-1867
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0.75 cu. ft. (1 document box) (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7213
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection includes correspondence, mostly to Spencer F. Baird, from members of the Scientific Corps of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, including Kennicott, Dall, Bannister, and Elliott; copies of reports submitted to divisional chiefs from expedition staff members; newspaper clippings concerning the expedition; copies of notes ...
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Hahn, J. Frank
- Dates:
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1866-1870
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7475
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This collection consists of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on telegraphy, collected by Hahn.
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Morton, Sterling, 1885-1961
Goodspeed, Charles B.
Teletype Corporation
Kleinschmidt, Edward E., 1876-1977
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1915-1930
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0.6 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1259
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
This collection largely contains correspondence regarding the Kleinschmidt Teletype, as well as financial records and newspaper clippings regarding the Teletype Company.
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Applebaugh, William K.
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1857-1926
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0.3 Cubic feet (2 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0638
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The papers document the life and career of William K. Applebaugh, and his activities as a telegrapher during the U.S. Civil War.
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Espenschied, Lloyd, 1889-? (electrical engineer)
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1907-1969
- Size:
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11.3 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0013
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Miscellaneous information on the history of telephonic and wireless communication; considerable personal correspondence about men and events in the field, especially disputed claims of inventions, development, and the like.
