Series V: Telegraph Material (1845-1914)
Series Description

Telegraph material includes printed brochures, historical writings, articles of association and agreement, reports, receipts for telegraph stock, proceedings of boards of directors for various telegraph companies, by-laws and incorporation papers, copies of the American Telegraph Magazine and Schaffner's Telegraph Companion, notices, scientific articles, legal briefs and comment on suits, charts of tariffs and charges, financial papers and other printed pieces. Stock subscriptions for the Ithaca and Palmyra Telegraph (1849) bear Ezra Cornell's annotations and lists of subscribers. In addition to the Western Union Telegraph Company, other organizations include the Erie and Michigan Telegraph Company, the Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Company, the New York and Erie Telegraph Company, the Franco-American Telegraph, the Atlantic Telegraph, International Ocean Telegraph Company, the East India Telegraph Company, the Russian American Telegraph - Western Union Extension, and several other domestic lines and companies.

Series Content

Description
Box
Folder
Telegraph Material: 1845
71
1-2
Telegraph Material: 1846
71
3-4
Telegraph Material: 1847
71
5-6
Telegraph Material: 1848
71
7-8
Telegraph Material: 1849
71
9-10
Telegraph Material: 1850
71
11
Telegraph Material: 1851
71
12
Telegraph Material: 1852
71
13-14
Telegraph Material: 1853
71
15
Telegraph Material: 1853
72
1
Telegraph Material: 1854
72
2-3
Telegraph Material: 1855
72
4
Telegraph Material: 1856
72
5
Telegraph Material: 1857
72
6
Telegraph Material: 1859
72
7
Telegraph Material: 1860
72
8
Telegraph Material: 1864
72
9
Telegraph Material: 1865
72
10
Telegraph Material: 1866
72
11-12
Telegraph Material: 1867
72
13
Telegraph Material: 1868
72
14
Telegraph Material: 1869
72
15
Telegraph Material: 1871
72
16
Telegraph Material: 1878
73
1
Telegraph Material: 1880
73
2
Telegraph Material: 1887
73
3
Telegraph Material: 1889
73
4
Telegraph Material: 1914
73
5
Telegraph Material: Undated
73
6-11
Telegraph Reports: August 1853 - November 1853
92
Telegraph Reports: December 1853 - July 1854
93
Telegraph Reports: August 1854 - February 1855
94
Telegraph Reports: June 1855 - August 1855
94
Telegraph Reports: November 1855 - December 1855
94
Newspaper clippings; broadsides with rates and regulations; diagrams; maps of telegraph lines; other printed materials.
II-8
3