The telegraph in American and Morse memorial (1886)
Reid, James D · New York, Printed for the author by J. Polhemus · leaf 256
of the office entrance. It was a very happy tributeto the grand old patriot who brought so much of genuine honor to hisnative land. But it was only in these isolated ways that any attemptwas ever made to make the telegraph outwardly attractive. Sometimesit was a small eagle with gilded wings… … N\ruREs Suggestion a touch of beauty or of art, in barber-pole style, to the lightning-bearers of thepublic streets. There is a curious Ameri-can shrub which seems to suggest some-thing of what a telegraph pole might be.It is the Agave, or American Aloe. Afterit has spent a century of preparation…
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 · Telegraph
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