Laying telegraph cable between Block Island and Matunuck, RI, 1903

gelatin silver print

PHOTOGRAPHS
Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation
USA, RI, Block Island
1903
paper
7-1/4 x 9-1/4 in.

Photograph from magazine mounted on ledger paper in photograph album 2008.28.10 of Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation salvage operations; cable on deck of tender, probably associated with laying telegraph cable between Block Island and Matunuck, RI, 1903; cable 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 duplicate print 2008.28.10.316, and related photographs 2008.28.10.312-316.

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