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Title
Lecture! Scientific and practical!
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1845
1846
1847
1848
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information
For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description
Image of a broadside with text advertising a lecture on telegraphing and electricity by Professor J.S. Ross; blank spaces for date, time, and venue to be filled in.
Date supplied by cataloger based on copy held by the New York Historical Society. "Prof. J.S. Ross will deliver a lecture on the subject of electricity, at [blank] in [blank] on [blank] evening ... an explanation of the telegraphing process, and the phenomenon of lightning will be the chief object ... the whole to be accompanied by illustrations on suitable apparatus, including Morse's telegraph. ..."--text, center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 letterpress : uncolored ; overall 50.48 x 24.13 cm (19 7/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_EDU_002966
443050
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/4360
Language
English
Subject
Telegraph
Relief prints--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection
Education
Large Size
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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