| HENRY ASH SKETCHES: 1889
Note: Sketches with record IDs beginning with AC are in the collection of the Atlantic Cable website. All other sketches are in the collection of the Library and Archives Canada.
Notes from news accounts and other contemporary documents are interspersed in this font. |
| --Bill Burns |
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| 1889 |
| Canso, Nova Scotia - New York ( 2 cables, extensions of the 1882 cables) |
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October 18, 1889
S.S. Faraday passing Cape Race, Newfoundland
Library and Archives Canada -
Henry Ash Fonds: e04414156 |
October 20, 1889
Dover Bay, Nova Scotia looking northwest
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Henry Ash Fonds: e04414157 |
October 21,1889
Dover Bay, Nova Scotia, Looking North-East
Atlantic Cable Website AC-09a |
Reverse of Dover Bay sketch above, showing names
of
the islands and path of the two cables to New York
Atlantic Cable Website AC-09b |
October 22, 1889
A clearing through the Pine Woods near Dover Bay, Nova Scotia
Library and Archives Canada -
Henry Ash Fonds: e04414158 |
October 24, 1889
Cable House at Dover Bay, Nova Scotia landing place of the Western Union Telegraph Co.'s 1889 New York Cables
Library and Archives Canada -
Henry Ash Fonds: e04414159 |
November 6, 1889
S.S. Faraday at anchor in Dover Bay, Nova Scotia sketched from Walsh Point rocks
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Henry Ash Fonds: e04414160 |
November 7, 1889
Cable House, Coney Island, New York left hand Commercial Cable Co.'s (MacKay Bennett) 1884 cable landing place. Right Hand Western Union Telegraph Co.'s (Gould) 1889 cable landing place
Library and Archives Canada -
Henry Ash Fonds: e04414161 |
November 7, 1889
Coney Island New York landing place of the 1889 New York Canso Telegraph Cables
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Henry Ash Fonds: e04414162 |
New York Times: NORTH EASTHAM, Mass., Nov. 15, 1889. A party of gentlemen, representing the Pouyer-Quertier Cable and the American Union Telegraph Companies, came down to this remote Cape Cod village today in a special parlor and hotel car on the regular train, to witness the arrival and landing of the new French cable. |
November 21, 1889
Chebucto Head near Halifax, Nova Scotia
Library and Archives Canada -
Henry Ash Fonds: e04414163 |
November 22, 1889
Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia (Northern part)
Library and Archives Canada -
Henry Ash Fonds: e04414164 |
November 22, 1889
A Country Road near Halifax, Nova Scotia
Library and Archives Canada -
Henry Ash Fonds: e04414165 |
November 22, 1889
View of the Northwest Arm Halifax, Nova Scotia
Library and Archives Canada -
Henry Ash Fonds: e04414166 |
November 24, 1889
Halifax, Nova Scotia from the sea
Library and Archives Canada -
Henry Ash Fonds: e04414167 |
November 29, 1889
Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia (looking south)
Library and Archives Canada -
Henry Ash Fonds: e04414168 |
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November 30, 1889
Near Richmond, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Atlantic Cable Website AC-10 |
December 13, 1889
A Rough Day on the Newfoundland Bank S.S. Faraday laying to
Library and Archives Canada -
Henry Ash Fonds: e04414169 |
December 15, 1889
A Dirty Night at Sea
[showing CS Faraday]
Atlantic Cable Website AC-11 |
Henry Ash Fonds images
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and Archives Canada. Reproduced by permission. |
