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  • Telegraph house, Newfoundland: telegraph workers smoking and reading papers in their mess. Coloured lithograph by G.M. McCulloch, 1866, after R.C. Dudley, 1858.
  • Laying a cable on the Atlantic seabed: the crew of the Great Eastern launching a buoy in an attempt to retrieve a lost cable. Coloured lithograph by E. Walker, 1866, after R.C. Dudley.
  • The ship Agamemnon at anchor off Greenwich before setting off to lay the telegraph cable across the Atlantic from Ireland to Canada. Wood engraving by F.J. Smyth, 1857, after E. Weedon.