Operating Records
name: label: Collection Creator
content: United Telegraph Workers.
label: Collection Creator
content: Western Union Telegraph Company
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content: Western Union Telegraph Company Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1868-1970s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0205, Series 13
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is divided into eight subseries:

1. Telephone directories, 1929; 1950-1959

2. How to operate booklets, 1918

3. Money transfer service/money order books, 1905-1939

4. Operator code books/cipher books, 1880-1917

5. Rate and wire mileage information, 1863-1957

6. Tariff and cable information, 1871-1975

7. Rules and regulations, 1866-1937

8. Equipment catalogs, manuals and specifications, circa 1894- 1956
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Operating Records consist of materials that were produced for and used by Western Union employees for daily operations. These records cover an array of operational activities such as equipment operating instructions and cable code books for cable operators and manuals for specific departments. 

The Money Transfer Service/Money Order Books, 1905-1939, instruct operators in the "proper way to send money" and include the names of offices authorized to receive and pay telegraphic money orders. The Operator code books were assigned to operators and each had a specific operating number. 

Tariff and Cable information contains the Tariff Check Ledger of July 1874 to May 1877, includes tariff information for Highlands, New Jersey, other areas of New Jersey and parts of New York. The Tariff Bureau book of 1871-1872, contains statements arranged according to states, the amount of business conducted between the states and territories and also the business rates between important offices. There is also additional information about individual states in "remarks."