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Pamphlets relating to telegraph matters:

Catalog Data

Collection Creator:
United Telegraph Workers.  Search this
Western Union Telegraph Company  Search this
Container:
Box 846, Folder 5
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents:
Letter from the Postmaster General in answer to a resolution of the Senate of February 23, relative to the establishment of a telegraph in connection with the postal system, June 2, 1866. E.B. Washburne. Union of the telegraph and postal system [to accompany bill H.R. No. 1083], May 18, 1868. Gardiner G Hubbard; Alexander William Randall; United States. Post Office Dept. Postal telegraph : letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting a report of G.G. Hubbard, esq. of Boston, relative to the establishment of a cheap system of postal telegraph. [Washington, 1869]. Postal Telegraph [to accompany bills H.R. 1083, 1415 and 1689]. Mr. Farnsworth, from the Committee on the Post office and post Roads. February 24, 1869. In the Senate of the United States. Mr. Ramsey, from the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, made the following report [to accompany bill S. No. 422] [Washington, D.C. : s.n., January 31, 1870]. C. C. Washburn; United States. Congress House. Postal telegraph in the United States (to accompany H. R. no. 2365] [Washington : s.n., 1870?] Mr. Palmer. United States. Congress House. Postal telegraph System [to accompany bill H.R. No. 2366] [Washington: July 5, 1870]. Mr. Wood. United States. Congress. House. Telegraph Between United States and Foreign Countries [to accompany bill H.R. No. 2591] [Washington: December 21, 1870]. U.S. Grant. Message of the President of the United States communicating in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 14th of June 1870, information in relation to charges made by the International Ocean Telegraph Company upon messages passing over their lines. 41st Congress. Senate Ex. Doc No. 5. Gardiner G Hubbard. Postal telegraph : memorial of Gardiner G. Hubbard on the subject of postal telegraph system. [Washington, D.C. : s.n., 1871]. Report of the Postmaster General being part of the message and documents communicated to the beginnings of the second session of the forty- second congress. [Washington, D.C.: Government printing Office, 1871.] United States. Senate. Congress. Report [To accompany bill S. no. 341] ... "A bill to reduce the rates of correspondence by telegraph and to connect the telegraph with the postal service. " [Washington, 1872] Orton, William. Memorial of the Western Union Telegraph Company, remonstrating against the passage of bill (S. 341) to connect the telegraph with the postal service, and to reduce the rates of correspondence by telegraph. 1872. James A Garfield; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. In the matter of the telegraphing of the signal-service reports. [Washington, D.C. : s.n., 1872]. United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. In the Senate of the United States, Mr. Chandler from the Committee on Commerce submitted the following report. [Washington, D.C.? : s.n., 1872?] United States. Congress. Senate. In the Senate of the United States, Mr. Ramsey submitted the following report to [accompany bill S. 341]. The committee on Post Offices and Post Roads to whom there was recommitted a bill to reduce the rates of correspondence by telegraph and to connect the telegraph with the postal service. 1872. United States. Congress. House of Representatives. Committee on Appropriations. To connect the telegraph with the postal service. December 19, 1872. United States. Congress. House of Representatives. Postal telegraph. Proceedings on the Committee on Appropriations in the matter of the postal telegraph. January 23, 1873. David Ames Wells. The relation of the government to the telegraph, or, a review of the two propositions now pending before Congress for Changing the Telegraphic Service of the Country. New York, 1873. United States. Congress. Senate. Resolution of the Legislature of Nebraska in favor of the establishment of a postal-telegraph system. 1873. Gardiner G Hubbard. Memorial of Gardiner G. Hubbard in relation to the postal telegraph. [Washington? : s.n., 1873?]
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Collection Citation:
Western Union Telegraph Company Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
See more items in:
Western Union Telegraph Company Records
Western Union Telegraph Company Records / Series 1: Historical and Background Information / 1.1: History of the Western Union Telegraph Company
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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