Cyrus W. Field Papers
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: 1840-1892
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0205, Series 6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Cyrus Field (1819-1892) was a New York paper merchant and warehouseman. Field assisted in laying the first transatlantic cable and he organized the New York, Newfoundland and London Electric Telegraph Company to lay a cable across the Atlantic in 1854. The Field papers consist of drawings and illustrations, specifically the Great Eastern, illustrated magazines, publications, and newspaper clippings.