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Photo, Print, Drawing The first telegraphic instrument

[ b&w film copy neg. ]

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About this Item

Title

  • The first telegraphic instrument

Summary

  • Copy photograph of a photomechanical print depicting the first telegraph apparatus, used between Baltimore and Washington in 1844. Margins include bust portraits of Benjamin Franklin, Samuel F.B. Morse, Alfred Vail, and Cyrus W. Field.

Names

  • Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.
  • Vail, Alfred, 1807-1859.

Created / Published

  • [1945]

Headings

  • -  Telegraph--1840-1850
  • -  Inventions--1840-1850
  • -  Experiments--1840-1850

Format Headings

  • Photographic prints--1940-1950.
  • Photomechanical prints--1870--Reproductions--1940-1950.

Genre

  • Photomechanical prints--1870--Reproductions--1940-1950
  • Photographic prints--1940-1950

Notes

  • -  Photomechanical print copyright 1870 by The New-York Fine Art Company.
  • -  Photomechanical print inscribed: The above photograph is a true representation of the earliest instrument constructed for public use and operated upon the experimental telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore in 1844. It was in charge of Alfred Vail Esq. at the Balt. Station, while its counterpart, a similar instrument, was under my charge at Washington. Saml. F.B. Morse, New York, May 31, 1870.
  • -  Copy photograph inscribed on verso: Photograph of the first telegraph instrument used by the late Professor Morse on his experimental line between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Md. Presented by Mr. S. Silshee Thompson, 3 Hamilton Ave., New York City, N.Y.

Medium

  • 1 photographic print.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • SSF - Telegraphs - 1870 [item] [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • cph 3a05220 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a05220

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2001700117

Reproduction Number

  • LC-USZ62-1406 (b&w film copy neg.)

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, and Alfred Vail. The First Telegraphic Instrument. , 1945. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2001700117/.

APA citation style:

Morse, S. F. B. & Vail, A. (1945) The First Telegraphic Instrument. , 1945. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2001700117/.

MLA citation style:

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, and Alfred Vail. The First Telegraphic Instrument. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2001700117/>.