Press copy of telegram from Samuel F. B. Morse to State Department
date: label: date made
content: ca 1845
name: label: maker
content: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: A handwritten telegraph message by Samuel Morse. Press copy of telegram, undated. The message is in English and reads: "Hon. W. P. Blake, State Department, Washington. / I wait only the proofs in duplicate, of / the engravings from Washington, to finish / and remit to you my report. ~ / Saml. F. B. Morse. / [skull logo]".The sending telegraph operator would have sent the message via Morse code, and the receiving operator would have translated the code back to English. The skull or death's head logo indicates that the message was to be sent without charge.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Edward L. Morse
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.233423
label: catalog number
content: 233423
label: accession number
content: 44349
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Morse Telegraph Message
label: Object Name
content: telegraph message
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: matted: 6 1/2 in x 10 in x 1/8 in; 16.51 cm x 25.4 cm x .3175 cm
label: Measurements
content: message only: 5 7/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 1/16 in; 14.9225 cm x 24.13 cm x .1651 cm