Telegraph house, Newfoundland: telegraph workers smoking and reading papers in their mess. Coloured lithograph by G.M. McCulloch, 1866, after R.C. Dudley, 1858.

  • Dudley, Robert Charles, 1826-1909.
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1866
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473428i
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Interior of Telegraph House, Newfoundland, the western end of the telegraph cables laid on the seabed of the Atlantic Ocean by Cyrus W. Field in 1858-1866

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1866

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1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 27.3 x 36.3 cm

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Telegraph house Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, interior of "mess room" 1858.

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Wellcome Collection 473428i

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After a watercolour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

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