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Map of the submarine telegraph between America & Europe : with its various communications on the two continents

Title Map of the submarine telegraph between America & Europe : with its various communications on the two continents

Date Created 1858

Subjects Cables, Submarine, Deep-sea sounding, Telegraph lines, Transatlantic cables

Description "Korff Bros., practical lithographers, 54 William St., New York."
"Entered according to Act of Congress in 1857 by Korff Brothers, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the U.S. of the Southern District of New York."
Detached from: The story of the telegraph, and a history of the great Atlantic cable / by Charles F. Briggs and Augustus Maverick. New York : Rudd & Carleton, 1858; issued on sheet folded to 19 x 10 cm and bound between pages 10-11.
Soundings shown in fathoms.
Prime meridian: Greenwich.
Illustrations at bottom (2 x 7 cm and 2 x 26 cm): The great Atlantic cable (natural size) -- Profile of the bottom of the Atlantic as sounded 1856 by the U.S. Steamer "Arctic."

Summary Shows undersea telegraph line between Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Valencia Island in Foilhomurrum Bay, Ireland, principal steamship routes in the North Atlantic Ocean, and railroad lines in North America and Europe.

Biographical/Historical Note [Biographical / Historical Note Long]

Extent 1 map : hand colored ; 17 x 46 cm

Format Cartographic materials, Charts, Maps, Thematic maps

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

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Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Call Number G9111.P93 1858 .M37

BibID 880846

IIIF Resource Type Manifest

IIIF Resource ID https://collections.newberry.org/IIIF3/Presentation/Manifest/2KXJ8ZSQE4SWN

Original File Name 998808468805867_map2f_g9111_p93_1858m37

Unique identifier NL11IYTC

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