Thirty-six Photographs of Telegraph Operators and Office Scenes

Description:

Thirty-six Photographs of Telegraph Operators and Office Scenes, c. 1860-1931, including three cabinet card size albumen images, one from Portland, Oregon, another from New Castle, Pennsylvania; an albumen stereoview of a statue of Samuel Morse, an albumen stereoview by D.W. Butterfield, Boston, of the American Telegraph Company office, an albumen stereoview of the Telegraphic Department of the Eastman Business College, Poughkeepsie, New York, an albumen stereoview titled "The Young Telegraphers," six albumen cartes-de-visite images of telegraphers including C.A. Bradford, Crown Point, New York, E.P. Whitford, [?] Peelar, Jonesville, Illinois, Samuel A Carey, Telegraph Operator Western Union R.R. Office, Racine, Wisconsin, Robert W. Fitzgerald, Western Union Railroad Office, Racine, Wisconsin, Cyrus W. Field; an albumen carte-de-visite image of a court house in Newark, Ohio; four collodion gelatin prints telegraphers including a studio image of Orville Watts and Jim Longfield, Turney, Missouri, Charles O'Laughlin, Night Operator, C.R.I.&P. Railroad, Casey Iowa, an unidentified operator and his two children, Canistota, South Dakota, and a group of unidentified telegraph operators in an office; eight gelatin silver prints of unidentified telegraphers, some in office scenes, a gelatin silver print identified "Students Eastern School of telegraphy, 1900," a gelatin silver print identiried "W.V. Powell. Prest. Order Railway Telegraphers. 90-a.," a gelatin silver print stereoview by the Keystone View Company of Samuel F.B. Morse, two gelatin silver print stereoiews by H.C. White Co. titled "Quick way to spread news.-telegraph.," a gelatin silver print real photo postcard of a telegrapher in an office [possibly St. Paul, Minnesota, 1915], a gelatin silver print real photo postcard of telegrapher inscribed "Ernest Dokrman" in an office setting, a gelatin silver print real photo postcard titled "INTERIOR OF SOUTHWESTERN TEL. SCHOOL. LITTLE ROCK, ARK." and an unidentified gelatin silver print postcard of a telegrapher in an office; and a printed postcard titled "THE LATE THOMAS A. EDISON AT TELEGRAPH KEY/ON HIS 83RD BIRTHDAY, FORT MYERS, FLORIDA-K14."

Provenance: From the collection of Jay Gaynor.
Estimate $300-500

Some wear.


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