Telecommunications Collection

Telegraph poles following the transcontinental railroad
Linemen stringing telegraph wire beside the transcontinental railroad on the Great Plains, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Telegraph key, 1860s
Civil War telegraph sending-key in working order, living history demonstration, Shiloh National Battlefield, Tennessee. Digital photograph

Morses telegraph
Diagrams of Morses telegraph apparatus, key, and register. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Joseph Henrys electromagnetic telegraph, 1832
Joseph Henrys signal telegraph apparatus, the first electromagnetic telegraph, 1832. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Railroad telegraph office, early 1900s
Telegraphers at a railway signal office, early 1900s. Hand-colored woodcut of an early 20th-century illustration

Western Union office in New York City, 1870s
Western Union Companys telegraph operations in New York City, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Busy telegraph office in New York City, 1860s
People sending wires at the American Telegraph Company office on Broadway at Liberty Street, New York City, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Telegraph office at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, 1870s
Telegraph office at Sandy Hook on the New Jersey shore, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Edisons telegraph, 1870s
Thomas Edisons electro-motograph, a telegraph, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Telegraph in operation, 1860s artifact
Civil War field telegraph sending-key in working order, living history demonstration, Shiloh National Military Park, Tennessee. Digital photograph

Stock ticker telegraph, NYSE, 1880s
Broker reading the stock ticker at the New York Stock Exchange, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Alexander Graham Bell in New York communicatiing for the first time with Chicago by telephone. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century photograph

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Old wall-mounted Western Electric telephone in the Soo Line depot, Rhinelander, Logging Museum, Rhinelander, Wisconsin. Digital photograph

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Santa Claus speaking to a child on the telephone, " Hello Little One!" 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Thomas Nast

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Pony Express rider passing workers raising telegraph poles, 1860s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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