Title
Album commemorating the 1865 and 1866 Atlantic telegraph cables and subsequent events
Reference
MS/2121
Production date
1865 - 1868
Scope and Content
Many dozens of items are stuck in on a total of 148 folio pages, and many more tipped in. The album commences with 'Dr. Russell's Diary', 37 facsimile pages (on 26 folios) 'written for the Directors of the Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company' by William H. Russell on board the Great Eastern in August 1865, followed by copies of messages relayed via the cable and congratulations sent re the achievement; many individual commemorative items of the event; much correspondence, especially of Capt. Anderson of the Great Eastern and press cuttings.
Extent
1 album
Language
English
Archival history
So much material relates to Anderson that it may well be an album compiled by him or a family member.
Level of description
TOP
Repository name
Science Museum, London
Conditions governing access
Open Access
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions
