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TELEGRAPHY AND TELEGRAPHONES.
Archive of photos, patents and documents relating to telegraphy and telegraphones.

21 September 2015, 13:00 EDT
New York

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TELEGRAPHY AND TELEGRAPHONES.

Archive of photos, patents and documents relating to telegraphy and telegraphones.
1. Album containing 66 sepia-toned gelatin silver prints 6 x 4 or 3½ x 4½ inches, c. 1906, mounted, oblong folio, flexible cloth bound with cord at spine, upper cover with "Photographs" lettered in gilt. A couple photographs with a hint of silvering, otherwise fine. An excellent collection of photographs detailing the various parts and make-up of telegraphones.
2. Autograph Manuscript, entitled "American Telegraphone Co. Data Book. Mar. 13th [19]06," 121 pp, primarily recto and verso, 4to, n.p., March 13, 1906, in ink and pencil on lined paper, being a highly technical and detailed data book, with mathematical notations, detailed diagrams, and technical details on a variety of machine parts. Flexible leatherette, chipped at edges, and spine.
3. File folder including 7 patents made out to Wilbur H. Thompson, filed 1905-1909 for "Telephone Reciever" etc. in original Patents Office envelope; Thompson's patent for the "Telegraphone" with 9 plates, filed 1909 (3 copies); quantity of stock certificates, newsletters, correspondence, offprints, wiring diagram of a combination telegraphone, and group of 24 early photographs of telegraphones and dictation and transcription machines, the majority with manuscript notations.

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