Telegraph Office

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Title Telegraph Office
Collection Utah State Historical Society Classified Photo Collection
File Name 39222001417042
Photo Number 05654
Publisher Utah State Historical Society
Date of Photograph 24 October 1861
Date 1861-10-24
Subject Telegraph; Telegraph industry
Spatial Coverage Utah; Salt Lake County; Salt Lake City
Comment The connecting of the trans-continental telegraph wires took place on Main Street, Salt Lake City. This was the first telegraph office located just north of the First Security Bank on the northeast corner of the 100 South and Main Street (not to be confused with the Deseret Telgraph office located on South Temple, east of Main Street.)
Rights Management Digital Image (c) 2007 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Classified Photo Collection, 725.2 Commercial Buildings
Source Format Paper print
Source Size 8 inches x 10 inches
Source Donors Putcamp, Luise
Type Image
Format image/jpeg
Format Creation scanned 800dpi
Scanned By Karl Nicholson and Earl Hindley, USHS
ARK ark:/87278/s6t72r7c
Setname dha_cp
ID 434639
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6t72r7c
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