Saturday, December 4, 2010
greetings from Ithaca, NY
What hath God wrought? was the message Samuel Morse telegraphed between Washington DC & Baltimore in 1844 to demonstrate the efficacy of the technology. The telegraph lines were built by Ezra Cornell, who built a great fortune from such construction, which, in turn, funded the university where I will reside for 2 years.
Labels:
collections,
Cornell University,
Ithaca,
photography,
vernacular
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