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| Box |
Folder |
Description |
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Subseries
1: Western Union Employee History, 1910-1932 |
| 564 |
1 |
Employees History,
1910 |
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2 |
Flow chart, 1924 |
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3 |
Roaming the Western
Union, 1932 |
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4 |
Subseries
2: Employee Membership Cards & Passes, 1885-1940 |
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Subseries
3: Employee Handbooks, 1912-1971 |
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5 |
Booklets, n.d. |
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6 |
Benefits Plan Booklets,
1912 |
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7 |
Benefits Plan Booklets,
1913-1914; 1929 |
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8 |
Benefits Plan Booklets,
1954-1956 |
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9 |
Benefits Plan Booklets,
1967-1968 |
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10 |
Benefits Plan Booklets,
1971 |
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11 |
Rules for Instructions
for Information and Guidelines of the Employees of Western
Union, 1870 |
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12 |
Report of Women's
League of Western Union, 1918-1919 |
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13 |
Plan for Employees
Pensions, Disability Benefits and Death benefits, 1916; 1929 |
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14 |
Death Benefit Plan,
1930 |
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15 |
Articles of agreement
between Western Union International, Inc., and American Comm.
Association covering Canadian-St. Pierre Cable Stations, 1964-1965 |
| 565 |
1 |
Western Union Training
Program, 1944 |
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2 |
Western Union Employees
Income Participation Plan, n.d. |
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3 |
Telephone Directory
for 60 Hudson Street, 1932 |
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Subseries
4: Employee Stock Subscription, 1914-1928 |
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4 |
Correspondence, 1914;
1927-1928 |
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5 |
Subscription Plans,
1926 |
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6 |
Subscription Plans,
1928 |
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Subseries
5: Employee Wage Cards, 1914-1922 |
| 566 |
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European Side (Liverpool;
Paris; Valentia; Penzance Training School; Assistant General
Management Office; Havre; London; Glasgow; Ballinskelligs) (PDF for box 566-567) |
| 567 |
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European Side (Valentia;
Paris, St. Pierre; Duxbury; Heart's Content; New York; Hammels;
Canso; Miami; North Sydney; Bay Roberts) (PDF for box 566-567) |
| 568 |
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Cable Office Error
Records |
| 569 |
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European Side (Assistant
General Management office-London; Glasgow; Havre; London Training
School; London Western Union House) (PDF for box 569) |
| 570 |
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European Live (Liverpool;
Manchester; Paris) (PDF for box 570) |
| 571 |
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Old Dead File/Out
of Service (New York; Hammels; Duxbury; Rye Beach; Halifax;
North Sydney; Bay Robert; Heart's Content; St. Pierre; Hammels-employees
out) (PDF for box 571) |
| 572 |
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Live Files (Valentia;
St. Pierre; Miami)
(PDF for box 572) |
| 573 |
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Live Files (Ballinskelligs;
Havre; Liverpool; London Training School; London Western Union
House; Manchester, Paris, Penzance; Valentia)
(PDF for box 573) |
| 574 |
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European Side/London
dead file (Assistant General Management Office Traffic Office;
Ballinskelligs; Glasgow; Havre; London Training School; London
Western Union House; Penzance(PDF for box 574) |
| 575 |
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Dead files for London, Penzance and Valentia (PDF for box 575) |
| 576 |
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North American Side
live files (PDF for box 576) |
| 577 |
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Heart's Content
(PDF for box 577) |
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Subseries
6: Minutes of Employees' Benefits Fund Committee, 1912-1949 |
| 578 |
|
Vol. A: December 1912-May
1914 |
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Vol. B: June 1914-December
1915 |
| 579 |
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Vol. C: December 1915-January
1917 |
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Vol. D: January 1917-March
1918 |
| 580 |
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Vol. E: April 1918-April
1919 |
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Vol. F: May 1919-June
1920 |
| 581 |
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Vol. M: June 1925-March
1926 |
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Vol. N: Mar. 1926-December
1926 |
| 582 |
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Vol. O: January-October
1927 |
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Vol. P: October 1927-May
1928 |
| 583 |
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Vol. Q: May-December
1928 |
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Vol. R: January 1929-June
1929 |
| 584 |
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Vol. S: July 1929-November
1929 |
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Vol. T: December 1929-May
1930 |
| 585 |
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Vol. U: June 1930-December
1930 |
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Vol. V: January 1931-June
1931 |
| 586 |
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Vol. W: July 1931-December
1931 |
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Vol. X: January 1932-June
1932 |
| 587 |
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Vol. Y: July 1932-December
1932 |
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Vol. Z: January 1933-June
1933 |
| 588 |
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Vol. AA: July 1933-December
1933 |
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Vol. BB: January 1934-June
1934 |
| 589 |
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Vol. CC: July 1934-December
1934 |
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Vol. DD: January 1935-June
1935 |
| 590 |
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Vol. EE: July 1935-December
1935 |
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Vol. FF: January 1936-June
1936 |
| 591 |
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Vol. GG: July-December
1936 |
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Vol. OO: Apr. 1942-Dec.
1943 |
| 592 |
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Vol. PP: Jan.-Dec.
1944 |
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Vol. QQ: Jan.-Dec.
1945 |
| 593 |
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Vol. RR: Jan.-Dec.
1946 |
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Vol. SS: Jan.-Dec.
1947 |
| 594 |
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Vol. TT: Jan.-Dec.
1948 |
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Vol. UU: Jan.-Dec.
1949 |
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Subseries
7: Job Classification, Contracts & Agreements, 1941-1973 |
| 595 |
1 |
"Understanding"
between Robert Elles and Western Union, 1941 |
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2 |
"As A Career
Western Union Service" pamphlet, n.d. |
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3 |
Supervisory Conference
Programs, 1943 ( or employees created by Industrial Relations
Board) |
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4 |
Management Orientation
Booklet, 1958 |
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4A |
Collective Bargaining Agreement,
1946 |
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5 |
Job Classification
& Contracts, 1966 |
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5A |
Contract, 1968 |
| 595A |
1 |
Job Classification
& Contracts, 1971 |
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2 |
Job Classification
& Contracts, 1973 |
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3 |
Job Classification & Contracts,
1978 |
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4 |
Job Classification & Contracts,
1979 |
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5 |
Job Classification & Contracts,
1982 |
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6 |
Contract, 1985 |
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Subseries
8: American School of Correspondence, 1911-1921 |
| 600 |
1 |
Alternating Current
Machinery, 1917 |
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2 |
Automatic and Printing
Telegraph Systems, Pts. 1-2, 1918 |
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3 |
Automatic and Printing
Telegraph Systems, Pts. 3-4, 1918 |
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4 |
Automatic and Printing
Telegraph Systems, Pts. 4-5, 1919 |
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5 |
Banking and Banking
Laws, 1912 |
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6 |
Bills, Notes, and
Checks, 1920 |
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7 |
Chemistry of Combustion,
1920 |
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8 |
Direct Current Dynamos,
Pt. 1, 1917 |
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9 |
Direct Current Motors,
1915 |
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10 |
District Telegraph
and Time Service, 1917 |
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11 |
Duplex and Quadraplex
Telegraphy, 1917 |
| 601 |
1 |
Elements of Alternating
Currents, 1914 |
| |
2 |
Elements of Electricity
and Magnetism, Pts. 1-2, 1917 |
| |
3 |
Elements of Electricity
and Magnetism, Pts. 3, 1917 |
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4 |
Elements of Outside
Plant Construction, 1919 |
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5 |
Laws of Agency, Pts.
1-2, 1917 |
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6 |
Laws of Contract,
Pts. 1-2, 1917 |
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7 |
Management of Dynamo
Electric Machinery, Pts. 1-2, 1914 |
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8 |
Mechanical Conveyors
and Pneumatic Tubes, 1918 |
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9 |
Mechanical Drawing,
Pts. 1-2, 1913; 1916 |
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10 |
Mechanical Drawing,
Pt. 3, 1920 |
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11 |
Mechanism, 1908 |
| 602 |
1 |
Outside Plant Construction,
Pts. 1-2, 1918 |
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2 |
Outside Plant Construction,
Pts. 3-4, 1918-1919 |
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3 |
Questions in Locational
Geography, 1919 |
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4 |
Questions on Western
Union Book of Rules and Tariffs, 1917 |
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5 |
Storage Batteries,
Pts. 1-2, 1920 |
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6 |
Strength of materials,
Pt. 1, 1912 |
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7 |
Submarine Telegraphy,
Pts. 1-2, 1920 |
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8 |
Telegraph Office Bookkeeping
Practice, 1920 |
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9 |
Telegraph Power Plants,
1917 |
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10 |
Telegraph Repeaters,
1918 |
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11 |
Telegraph Switchboards,
1918 |
| 603 |
1 |
Telephony, Pt. 1,
1911 |
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2 |
Telephony, Pt. 2,
1911 |
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3 |
Telephony, Pt. 12,
1912 |
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4 |
Telephony, Pt. 13,
1912 |
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5 |
Telephony, Pt. 14,
1912 |
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6 |
Theory of Accounts,
Pt. 1, 1912 |
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7 |
Types of Generators
and Motors, 1914 |
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8 |
Underwriters Requirements,
Pts. 1-2, 1915 |
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8A |
Wire and Cable Testing, 1918 |
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9 |
Wireless Cable Testing,
1918 |
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10 |
Wireless Telegraphy,
1912 |
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11 |
Wire Testing, 1912 |
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Subseries
9: Service Records, 1883-1931 |
| 595A |
7 |
Personnel Rosters/service
records, 1907-1931 |
| 596 |
|
Obsolete records for
C.S. Clowry; C.S. Minia; C.S. Lord Kelvin; C.S. Venosta |
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Personnel rosters,
1883-1931 (not inclusive) |
| 597 |
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Personnel rosters,
Vol. 1, 1883-1888 |
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Personnel rosters,
Vol. 2, 1888-1892 |
| 598 |
|
Personnel rosters,
Vol. 3, 1892-1898 |
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Personnel rosters,
Vol. 4, 1902-1909 |
| 599 |
1 |
Subseries
10: Employee Awards, Citations and Commendations, 1915-1945 |
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Subseries
11: Employee Signatures, Autographs, and Reminiscences, 1871-1898;
1909-1945 (includes clippings and obituaries) |
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2-3 |
Signatures and Autographs, 1871-1898;
1909-1949 (includes clippings and obituaries) |
| |
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Employee Reminiscences, 1930s-1940s |
| 604 |
8 |
Barbour, J.M., 1940 |
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9 |
Burnheimer, June V. (messenger
girl), 1937 |
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10 |
J.G.D., 1940 |
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11 |
Decatur, James G., 1940 |
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12 |
Drake, W.F. (manager), 1940 |
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13 |
Lukens, W.E., 1940 |
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14 |
May, A.H. (district superintendent),
1940 |
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15 |
Mifka, J.E.
Meyers, C.E.
McCormick, William C.
Taylor, O.C.
Wilson, W.H. |
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16 |
Mooney, Ralph E., 1955 |
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17 |
Pennoyer, Shledon, 1938 |
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18 |
[Schwandt, W.F.?], 1940 |
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19 |
Sellsted, O. (chief operator),
1940 |
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20 |
Steinel, C.J. |
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21 |
Vincent, Clarence , 1940 |
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22 |
Wray, John (night traffic manager),
1940 |
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Subseries
12: Telegraph Associations, 1852-1929 |
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|
Old Time Telegraphers
and Historical Association, 1911-1929 |
| 599 |
4 |
1911; 1920 |
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5 |
1922; 1924-1925 |
| |
6 |
1926-1929 |
| |
7 |
New York and Boston
Telegraph Association, 1852; 1913 |
| |
|
North American Telegraph
Association, 1858-1880 |
| 604 |
1 |
Minutes, 1858-1863 |
| |
2 |
Notes, July 1880 (accompany
minute book) |
| |
3 |
Proceedings, 1861 |
| |
4 |
Annual Meeting reports,
1860; 1862-1863 |
| |
5 |
Decisions by English,
French and American Courts Upon Questions Affecting Telegraph
Communication, 1862. |
| |
6 |
Telegraphers Mutual
Benefit Association, 1872-1880 |
| |
7 |
Telegraph and Telephone Life Insurance
Association, 1914; 1923; 1926 |
| 812 |
|
Telegraph Centennial Scrapbook,
vol. 1, 1844-1944 |
| 813 |
|
Telegraph Centennial
Scrapbook, vol. 2, 1844-1944 |
| O/S Fldr. 18 |
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When Old Time Telegraphers Invite Their Wives and Sweethearts to Dinner in New York (newspaper clipping), The World, 2 September 1905 |
