{"id":2616,"date":"2013-06-27T13:23:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T17:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2013-06-27T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T18:23:24","slug":"the-world-wide-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/the-world-wide-telegraph\/","title":{"rendered":"The World-Wide Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Production Services routinely photographs rare or oversize items requested by researchers for use in publications. In the event that these materials are out of copyright, many of these requests are added to the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/find\/Collection\/Home?collection=Brown%20Olio&amp;collection_id=18\" target=\"_blank\">Brown Olio digital collection<\/a>, a group of miscellaneous items published apart from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/cds\/projects?q=%2A:%2A%20AND%20project_class:%22Signature%20collections%22\" target=\"_blank\">signature collections<\/a>&#8221; or other online digital projects.<\/p>\n<p>Shown below is a\u00a0January 1902 two-sheet supplement to <em>National Geographic Magazine<\/em>, depicting in detail &#8220;Telegraph Lines and Cables in the Military Division of the Philippines&#8221; (map produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps). The included visual key distinguishes between &#8220;military telegraph lines,\u00a0military cables,\u00a0Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company&#8217;s cable,\u00a0commercial telegraph stations,\u00a0military telegraph stations,\u00a0telephone stations,\u00a0open ports, coastwise ports,\u00a0light houses, and\u00a0post offices&#8221; (click on each section below for zoomable views).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu:8080\/ImageServer\/scrollnav.jsp?filename=1233345300375000.jp2\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2622\" alt=\"G8061-P92-1902-U55x\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-content\/uploads\/G8061-P92-1902-U55x.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"975\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dl.lib.brown.edu:8080\/ImageServer\/scrollnav.jsp?filename=1233345386890625.jp2\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2631\" alt=\"G8061-P92-1902-U55x_2\" src=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-content\/uploads\/G8061-P92-1902-U55x_2.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"966\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom Standage&#8217;s popular book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/the-victorian-internet-9781620405925\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century&#8217;s On-line Pioneers<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(New York: Walker and Company, 1998) recounts the spread of the telegraph system throughout the 19th century and beyond. A more detailed account of the development of telegraph cables in the Pacific can be found in Robert W. D. Boyce&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/579434\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Imperial Dreams and National Realities: Britain, Canada and the Struggle for a Pacific Telegraph Cable, 1879\u20131902&#8221;<\/a> (<em>The English Historical Review<\/em>, Vol. 115, No. 460 [Feb., 2000], pp. 39\u201370).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Production Services routinely photographs rare or oversize items requested by researchers for use in publications. In the event that these materials are out of copyright, many of these requests are added to the Brown Olio digital collection, a group &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/the-world-wide-telegraph\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-brown-olio","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/dps\/curio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}