Prospectus Of The Pacific And Atlantic Telegraph Company Of The United States PDF Download

Consists mainly of a list of subscribers in Pennsylvania and Maryland who purchased stock in the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company, with their names, the date of purchase, their town of residence, and the number of shares they bought. Bound in is a manuscript map of telegraph lines for the Southern Telegraph Company from New Orleans up to Saint Louis, the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company from Saint Louis up to Milwaukee in the west and Philadelphia in the east, the Insulated Lines Telegraph Company from Washington, DC up to Middletown, Connecticut, and the Int[ernational] Telegraph Company from there up to Portland, Maine, with a note saying that the line extended to Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is unclear whether the telegraph lines shown were actual or merely proposed.