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Morse Code

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Morse apparatus and alphabet

Reference note

Summary: Print shows apparatus for sending and receiving coded telegraph messages, with the alphabet and numbers in "Morse code."
Contributor Names: Knight, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1824-1883.
Created / Published: [1877]
Subject Headings: -  Morse, Samuel Finley Breese,--1791-1872
-  Morse code--1870-1880
-  Telegraph--1870-1880
Notes: -  Title from item.
-  Illus. in: Knight's American mechanical dictionary. New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1877, vol. 2, fig. 3225.
-  Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 237.
Repository: Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: cph 3c10409 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c10409

Report on Morse Code

Greenville, South Carolina. Air Service Command. Men of the the 1067th signal company of the 25th service group learning to send and receive Morse code

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Contributor Names: Delano, Jack, photographer
Created / Published: 1943 July.
Subject Headings: -  United States--South Carolina--Greenville County--Greenville
Genre: Safety film negatives
Notes: -  Title and other information from caption card.
-  Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
-  More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
-  Temp. note: owibatch5
-  Film copy on SIS roll 19, frame 201.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: fsa 8d40314 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8d40314

Image 7 of Fragments of correspondence, Morse code tape, and posters

Reference note

Contributor Names: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.
Subject Headings: -  Ephemera
Genre: Ephemera
Repository: Manuscript Division
Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mmorse.071003

Image 24 of Patent certificate to Alexander Bain for improvement in electric telegraph

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Contributor Names: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872.
Subject Headings: -  Ephemera
Genre: Ephemera
Repository: Manuscript Division
Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mmorse.072003

New York City--The Morse celebration at the Academy of Music, June 10th--Professor Morse manipulating his signature to the message telegraphed by Miss Sadie E. Cornwell

Reference note

Created / Published: 1871 July 1.
Subject Headings: -  Morse, Samuel Finley Breese,--1791-1872
-  Cornwell, Sadie E
-  Telegraph--1870-1880
-  Historical reenactments--New York (State)--New York--1870-1880
Notes: -  Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1871 July 1, p. 249.
Repository: Digital Id: cph 3c16332 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c16332

[Samuel F. B. Morse, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]

Reference note

Created / Published: [ca. 1845]
Subject Headings: -  Morse, Samuel Finley Breese,--1791-1872
Genre: Daguerreotypes--1840-1850
Portrait photographs--1840-1850
Notes: -  Case: scroll motif.
-  Plate mark: Six pointed star with the word "DOUBLE" under which appears "J," an animal figure and the letter "W" in a lozenge.
-  Copy daguerreotype.
-  Written in ink on back of plate: S.F.B. Morse. Written on seal: Restored by A.R. Phillips, Jr., Dec. 9, 1941.
-  Facing the light / H. Pfister. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1978, p. 335.
-  Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105).
-  Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).
-  Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)
-  Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Business & Science section.
-  Exhibit loan 4105-L.
-  Annenberg batch 12
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 51817 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.51817
cph 3g12153 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g12153
cph 3d02207 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3d02207