DESCRIPTION: C19 newsprint engraving of the ‘Celebration of the laying of the Atlantic Telegraph cable at New York [in 1858] – The illumination of the City Hall’. *Note sign in middle of image (over City Hall’s main entrance): ‘All Honor to Cyrus S [sic] Field’. The founder and entrepeneur behind the achievement was in fact named Cyrus West Field.
STYLE:Engraving
COLOUR: Monochrome
SIZE (cm): 24.5 x 17.5
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PUBLICATION: n/pn
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DATE: c1858
COMMENTS: Excellent condition
SUBJECT: Transport & Industry
PACKAGE: Single one-sided sheet  in acid-free mount, flat & unfolded inside hard-backed envelope. Royal Mail Tracked 24 included.