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| Box |
Folder |
Description |
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Subseries
1: Correspondence, 1916-1940 |
| 547 |
1 |
Re: Licensing Agreements,
1916-1940 |
| |
2 |
Plant Letters, 1917-1931
(#1-#114) |
| |
3 |
Plant Letters, 1917-1931
(#114-150) |
| 548 |
1 |
Numerical index of
active plant instructions (letters), 1931 |
| |
2 |
Plant Letters, 1917-1931
(#152-222) |
| |
|
Subseries
2: Instructions, 1916-1960 |
| 549 |
1 |
Instructions, Vol.
1, 1916-1937 |
| |
2 |
Instructions, Vol.
2, 1919-1932 |
| 550 |
1 |
Instructions &
rules pertaining to the construction & maintenance of
outside plant # 20, 1915 |
| 821 |
12 |
Instructions and rules pertaining
to the construction & maintenance of outside plant (showing
vertical clearance for cable or wire), 1916 |
| |
13 |
Instructions and rules pertaining
to the construction & maintenance of outside plant (motor,
velocipede, lever and push cars), 1919 |
| |
14 |
Instructions and rules pertaining
to the construction & maintenance of outside plant (accidents--first
aid instructions), 1923 |
| |
15 |
Resuscitation in Gas Poisoning, Electric Shock, and Drowning A Manual in Standard Technique, 1929 |
| 550 |
2 |
Rules for care of
iron gravity battery, 1916 |
| |
3 |
Operation and maintenance
of telegraph power plants, 1918 |
| |
4 |
Installation Force
Instructions, nos. 487, 492, 497, 1923
Handbook for Teleprinters Maintainers, 1944 June 12 |
| |
5 |
Instruction paper
on electromagnetism, 1930 |
| |
6 |
Bell System practices
outside plant construction and maintenance, 1931. |
| |
7 |
Instructions for Teleprinter,
1944 |
| |
8 |
Instructions for Western
Union Telegraph Company Boresighter (for machine guns), 1946. |
| 551 |
1 |
Physical Plant and
Broad Aspects of Accounting Classification and Control, 1960 |
| |
|
Subseries
3: Specifications, 1913-1953 |
| |
2 |
Numerical list of
equipment specifications, 1923 |
| |
3 |
C-5-A, A paper insulated
lead sheath cable with #14 browne and sharpe conductors, 1910 |
| |
4 |
E-4-C, installation
and operation of differential quadruplex sets, 1917 |
| |
5 |
E-13-C, Signaling
system for calling in duplex or quadruplex attendants, 1920 |
| |
6 |
E-21-E, Installation
and operation of terminal duplex sets, 1918 |
| |
7 |
E-199-C, Switchboard
circuit am with loops, 1925 |
| |
8 |
E-242-B, Manufacture
of perforator tables 1A, 1913 |
| |
9 |
263-B, Multiplex printer
4-A, 1918 |
| |
10 |
313-A, installation
of resistance lamp racks, 1914 |
| |
11 |
299A, Wiring and installation
by Morkum, 1914 |
| |
12 |
529-A, Contact shunt
locking repeaters and half repeaters, 1917 |
| 552 |
1 |
579-A, Adjustment
and maintenance of Wheatstone relays and other types of polarized
relays, 1917 |
| |
2 |
598-A, Installation
and Operation of Call Boxes 5-A, 1917 |
| |
3 |
604-A, Anti noise
sets, 1917 |
| |
4 |
732-A Cardwell Printing
Telegraph System, 1918 |
| |
5 |
Installation of Morse
Operating Sets, 1927 |
| |
6 |
Telefax Equipment
Costs, 1953 |
| |
|
Subseries
4: Inside Plant Catalogues, 1917-1929 |
| |
7 |
Submarine Cable testing
and Localization of Breaks, n.d. |
| 553 |
1 |
Apparatus, Material
and Tools, 1914 |
| |
2 |
Apparatus, Material
and Tools, 1916 |
| |
3 |
Apparatus, Material
and Tools, 1917 |
| |
4 |
Apparatus, Material
and Tools, 1929 |
| |
|
Subseries
5: Outside Plant Catalogues, 1920-1929 |
| |
5 |
Outside Plant Catalogue,
1912 |
| |
6 |
Outside Plant Catalogue,
1920 |
| |
7 |
Outside Plant Catalogue,
1922 |
| |
8 |
Outside Plant Catalogue,
1924 |
| |
9 |
Outside Plant Catalogue,
1926 |
| 555 |
7 |
Catalogue of Approved Apparatus,
Material and Tools (Engineering Dept. of Postal Telegraph-Cable
Co.), 1927 |
| |
8 |
Outside Plant Catalogue, 1953 |
| 554 |
1 |
Outside Plant Catalogue,
1929 |
| |
2 |
10-A Printer Parts
Catalogue, 1922 |
| |
3 |
1A Auto Control Parts
Catalogue, 1923 |
| |
4 |
7A Type Distributor
Catalogue, 1923 |
| |
|
Subseries
6: Equipment, 1867-1936 (not inclusive) |
| 555 |
1 |
New York Stock Tickers,
1934-1936 |
| |
2 |
Dow Jones Tickers,
1935 |
| |
3 |
High Speed tickers,
patents and description |
| |
4 |
Description of Western
Union High Speed ticker, 1928. |
| |
5 |
Stock indicators and
reporters (paper and bibliography), 1867; 1882; 1931 |
| |
|
Subseries
7: Wire and Pole Line Materials, 1874-1915 |
| |
6 |
Wire tests (of various
companies), 1874-1882 |
| 555 |
9 |
Necessity for the poles now erected in Tenth Street, in the City of Philadelphia, by the Western Union Telegraph Company, 1876 |
| 556 |
|
Wire statistics, 1876-1888
(wires, poles, miles and number of messages) |
| 557 |
|
Ledger of lines, January
1875-December 1888 |
| 558 |
|
Wire Mileage by State,
Vol. 1 of 2, 1892 (Alabama-North Carolina) |
| 559 |
|
Wire chart of Western
Union showing all wires used in land line service, 1915 |
| O/S Folder 19 |
|
List of commercial wires and number of miles for main stem and Philadelphia Divisions Wire Schedule B, undated |
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|
Subseries
8: Miscellaneous, 1899-1963 |
| 560 |
1 |
Training Courses,
Plant and Engineering Training Center, Chattanooga, TN, 1959 |
| |
2 |
Telegraph carrier
routes, 1957-1963 |
| |
3 |
Lease outage report
form and cable traffic conditions form, n.d. |
| |
4 |
Technical notes (unidentified),
1939 |
| |
5 |
Plant Observer,
1929-1933 |
| 561A |
|
Splice and position
list for cable system at Punta Rasa-Key Bicore, 1924 and Miami
Beach-Key West Tricore, 1899 |
