Telegram
- Object Name:
- Telegram
- Object ID:
- 2017.500.15
- Date:
- circa 1870
- Description:
- Telegram sent via Transatlantic Cable. Strip of white paper with graph printed in blue ink. Strip is in two pieces (one long, one short) adhered to piece of white paper. Backing paper inscribed in ink, "Message via Atlantic Cable / Terminus of which is in Duxbury, Mass."
- Material:
- Paper
- Dimensions:
- W-0.6 L-5.5 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 20 objects in collection of relics found in first-floor classroom in New Hampshire Historical Society building at 6 Eagle Square (Hamel Center), Concord, in 2017. Acquired by NHHS education department c. 2010 from an unidentified New Hampshire school teacher who was visiting the museum with a class.
All of the inscriptions appear to date from the 1890s. Four of the objects were given to the collector by Mrs. Leroy S. Brown (Geneva May Philbrick Brown) (1855-1947) of Cambridge, MA; she lived in Cambridge from 1884 to 1906. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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