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Source Description
Indicates land telegraph cables in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Europe, and north Africa, submarine cables, steamship routes, and proposed lines.
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Document identity
localId
7h149w21m
label
Telegraph chart
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
7h149w21m
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Telegraph chart
description
Indicates land telegraph cables in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Europe, and north Africa, submarine cables, steamship routes, and proposed lines.
date
["1858"]
year
1858
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_008392
creators
H.H. Lloyd & Co
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Transatlantic cables--Maps
Telegraph
Telegraph lines--North America--Maps
Telegraph lines--Europe--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Europe
North America
North and Central America
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
New York
publisher
H.H. Lloyd & Co.
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
56.2
schema:longitude
15.016
extent
1 map : hand col. ; 26 x 60 cm., on sheet 86 x 67 cm.
notes
Indicates land telegraph cables in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Europe, and north Africa, submarine cables, steamship routes, and proposed lines.
Depths shown by soundings.
Prime meridian: Greenwich.
Includes two double column articles of text: Account of the invention and operation of the magnetic telegraph -- Description of making and laying submarine telegraph cables.
Includes tables: Overland telegraphs of the world -- Submarine telegraphs of the world -- Morse's telegraphic alphabet.
Includes portraits of Cyrus W. Field and Samuel F.B. Morse, a cross section of the ship Niagara laying out the cable, illustrations of cables, telegraphs, signal keys and batteries, and a profile of the Atlantic Ocean on the telegraph plates.
"Entered according to Acot of Congress, in the year 1858, by H. H. Lloyd & Co."
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no
dcId
7h149w21m
type
map
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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40eb85d4a5a31a3b