Laying cable between Block Island and Matunuck, RI, 1903

photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation; Murray, S.B.
USA, RI, Block Island
1903
paper
6-1/2 x 4-1/2 in.

Photograph from magazine mounted on ledger paper in photograph album 2008.28.10 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; signed in print lower left "S.B. Murray"; printed caption glued on ledger page "PAYING OUT THE FIRST MILE"; men on deck of vessel laying cable between Block Island and Matunuck, RI, 1903; to be used by U.S. Weather Bureau, Western Union Telegraph Co., and Providence Telephone Company; see article "Laying of the New Block Island Cable" in "Electrical Review", Vol. 43, No. 13, page 431; see related photographs 2008.28.10.312-316.

2008.28.10.312