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Unspecified / ca 1860

Telegraph Register

Telegraph Register

The Smithsonian catalogs Telegraph Register as telegraph receiver in its Communication, telegraph records.

WHY IT’S INTERESTING

We do not know for certain who made this ornate telegraph register, only that the Delaware & Hudson Company’s Transportation Department used it on their railroad. Telegraph equipment maker J. H. Bunnell and Company donated the register to the Smithsonian in 1901 and may have been the maker, but the piece lacks the Bunnell stamping that usually appears on their products.

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A CLOSER LOOK

The Smithsonian lists the object under Communication, telegraph and dates it ca 1860.

We do not know for certain who made this ornate telegraph register, only that the Delaware & Hudson Company’s Transportation Department used it on their railroad. Telegraph equipment maker J. H. Bunnell and Company donated the register to the Smithsonian in 1901 and may have been the maker, but the piece lacks the Bunnell stamping that usually appears on their products.

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Smithsonian InstitutionTelegraph Register

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