Personal/Biographical Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Field, Cyrus
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content: Cyrus W. Field Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1854 - 1896
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1386, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains personal and biographical materials related to Cyrus W. Field.  The materials include  certificates, autographs, memberships, banquet menus, invitations, calling cards, memorial resolutions, and other ephemera related primarily to Field's success at laying the transatlantic cable. Included is the publication Cyrus W. Field His Life and His Work, 1819-1892 written by Field's daughter, Isabella Field Judson in 1896.