Scanned by:
Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
Scan date:
07/31/2013
Notes:
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 29, 2015.
Depicted content:
- In the Atlantic, the latest effort to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable fails when the cable breaks and is lost
- The Great Eastern, laying the new Atlantic Cable, passes where the cable broke and was lost in 1865.
- The Great Eastern begins to lay cable connected to the recovered 1865 broken cable and heads for Newfoundland.
- Telegraph
Image type:
engraving
Original caption:
The Breaking of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on board the Great Eastern.
Source citation:
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 23, 1865, p. 5.