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| Box |
Folder |
Description |
| 684 |
1 |
Subseries
1: Western Union Cable/Telegraph system background, n.d. |
| |
|
Subseries
2: Western Union Telegram Books (blank forms), n.d. |
| |
2 |
Order Blank book,
1870s |
| 685 |
1-3 |
Feature blanks--All
Services (bound) |
| 684 |
3 |
Record of telegram
booklets |
| |
4 |
Obsolete forms, 1900s |
| |
5-13 |
General/Generic forms |
| |
|
Subseries
3: Western Union Telegrams--Specialty, n.d. |
| 685 |
4 |
Airline Courtesy |
| |
5 |
Airlines |
| |
6 |
Airline Passenger's |
| |
7 |
Air Traveler's |
| 686 |
1-5 |
All Occasions |
| |
6 |
Anniversary |
| |
7 |
Armed Forces |
| 687 |
1 |
Birthday Greetings |
| |
2 |
Bon Voyage |
| |
3 |
Boy Scouts of America |
| |
4 |
Bunnygram (See Easter) |
| |
5 |
Cablegram |
| |
6 |
Cablegrama |
| |
7 |
Cablegrams & Envelopes |
| |
8 |
Cable Message |
| 688 |
|
Candygram Box |
| 689 |
1 |
Collect Cards/Tourate
Cards |
| |
2 |
Congratulations |
| |
3 |
Day Letter |
| |
4 |
Deliquent Accounts |
| |
5 |
Easter (See Bunnygram) |
| |
6 |
Facsimile (Carbon) |
| |
7 |
Facsimile & Telephotograph |
| |
8 |
Father's Day |
| 690 |
1 |
Florist |
| |
2 |
General Electric |
| |
3 |
Gift/Money Order (See
Money Order Forms/Shopping Order Forms) |
| |
4 |
Half Rate Messages |
| |
5-6 |
Holiday (Christmas) |
| |
7 |
Jewish New Year |
| |
8 |
Kiddiegram |
| |
9 |
London |
| 691 |
1 |
Mailgram and Melody Gram |
| |
2 |
Messenger Service |
| |
3 |
Mexico |
| |
4 |
Money Order Forms/Shopping
Order Forms |
| |
5 |
Montreal, Canada |
| |
6 |
Mother's Day |
| 692 |
1 |
Mother's Day |
| |
2 |
Newfoundland, Canada |
| 693 |
1 |
New Year's Greeting |
| |
2-3 |
Night Message/Night
Letter |
| |
4 |
Paramount Silver Jubilee |
| |
5 |
Pep Telegrams |
| |
6 |
Photograms and Telephotographs |
| |
7 |
Political Conventions |
| |
8 |
Press |
| |
9 |
Press Message |
| |
10 |
Reservation Service
(Motel and Hotel) |
| |
11 |
RUSH |
| |
12 |
Santagram |
| |
13 |
Shopping Order |
| |
14 |
Singogram |
| |
15 |
Social Message |
| |
16 |
Souvenir/Tourate |
| 694 |
1 |
Sounvenir/Facsimile |
| |
2 |
Spirit of St. Louis |
| |
3 |
Storkgram |
| |
4 |
St. Patrick's Day |
| |
5 |
St. Pierre & Miquelon,
Newfoundland, Canada |
| |
6 |
Telefax |
| |
7-8 |
Thanksgiving |
| |
9 |
Thank You's |
| |
10 |
United Nations Conference |
| |
11 |
Valentine Greeting |
| 695 |
1 |
Valentine Greeting |
| |
|
Subseries
4: Western Union Miscellaneous Telegrams, 1870-1960s |
| |
2-4 |
Miscellaneous, 1870-1910 |
| 696 |
1 |
Miscellaneous-Sent,
1857-1880 |
| |
2 |
Miscellaneous-Sent,
1882-1912 |
| |
3 |
Miscellaneous-Sent,
1921-1954 |
| |
4-5 |
Miscellaneous-Blank
Forms, 1928-1941 |
| |
6 |
Miscellaneous, 1960s |
| O/S Fldr. 14 |
|
Text (copy) of telegram message about execution of John Copeland, accomplice of John Brown, 1859 |
| O/S Fldr. 18 |
|
Photograph of the original message “What Hath God Wrought,” 24 May 1844 |
| |
|
Subseries
5: Western Union Delivery & Message Envelopes, 1865-1941 |
| 697 |
1-22 |
1865-1941 |
| 698 |
1 |
Miscellaneous, n.d. |
| |
2 |
Subseries
6: Western Union Wired Telegrams and Envelopes, 1857-1954 |
| |
3-5 |
Subseries
7: Western Union Adverstisements for Telegram Services, 1872-1942 |
| 701 |
1 |
Franks and Advertising
Stamps, ca. 1907-1909 |
| |
1A |
Franks and Advertising Stamps,
ca. 1940s |
| 703 |
|
Franks and Stamps,
Vol. 1, 1872-1942 and Vol. 2, 1912-1947 |
| 704 |
|
Franks and Stamps,
Vol. 3, 1881-1941 |
| |
|
Subseries
8: Telegram Scrapbooks, 1846-1940 |
| 699 |
1-33 |
Telegram Message Blanks
and Envelopes Scrapbook (original) |
| 705 |
1 |
Telegram Message Blanks
and Envelopes Scrapbook (reference) |
| 700 |
1-27 |
Telegram Collection
Scrapbook, 1850s-1940 (original) |
| 705 |
2 |
Telegram Collection
Scrapbook, 1850s-1940 (reference) |
| 705A |
1 |
Telegram Scrapbook, 1849-188? |
| |
2 |
Telegram Scrapbook, 1849-1892 |
| |
3 |
Telegram Scrapbook, circa 1935
(blank examples of international telegrams) |
| |
4 |
Telegram Scrapbook, 1849-1925 |
| |
5 |
Telegram Scrapbook, 1846-1927
(not inclusive) |
| 706 |
|
Facsimile Service
Scrapbook, n.d. |
| 701 |
2 |
Subseries
9: Commercial Cable Company, n.d. |
| |
3 |
Subseries
10: Commercial Pacific Cable Company, n.d. |
| |
4 |
Subseries
11: Morse American Telegraph Company, 1853 |
| |
|
Subseries
12: Postal Telegraph, 1889, 1930s-1942 |
| |
5 |
Booklets of Blanks,
1930s-1942 |
| |
6-9 |
Telegram blanks by
specialty |
| 702 |
1 |
Telegram blanks by
speciality |
| |
2 |
Italo-American-Blank |
| |
3 |
Delivery and Message
Envelopes |
| |
4 |
Telegrams-Sent, 1889;1930s |
| |
5 |
Advertsising Material,
Samples of Blank Telegrams |
| |
|
Subseries
13: Other telegram companies, 1852-1938 |
| |
6 |
Telegrams wired by
various companies, 1852-1889 |
| 707 |
|
Telegram scrapbook,
1858-1938 |
| |
|
Subseries
14: International Telegrams, n.d. |
| 708 |
1 |
Argentina |
| |
2 |
Austria |
| |
3 |
Bahamas |
| |
4 |
Belgium |
| |
5 |
Brazil |
| |
6 |
Canada/England |
| |
7 |
Columbia/Honduras |
| |
8 |
Cuba |
| |
9 |
Holland |
| |
10 |
Finland/Norway/Denmark |
| |
11 |
France |
| 709 |
1 |
Germany |
| |
2 |
Greece |
| |
3 |
Guatemala/Peru |
| |
4 |
India |
| |
5 |
Japan |
| |
6 |
Federated Malay States |
| |
7 |
Netherlands |
| |
8 |
New Zealand |
| |
9 |
Nicarugua |
| |
10 |
South Africa |
| |
11 |
Spain |
| |
112 |
Switzerland |
| 710 |
1 |
Australia |
| |
2 |
Ceylon |
| |
3 |
Costa Rica |
| |
4 |
Czechoslovakia/Hungry |
| |
5 |
Ireland/Egypt |
| |
6 |
Portugal |
| |
7 |
South Africa |
| |
8 |
Uruguay |
