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History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network

Henry M. Ash and CS Faraday (1)
1879-1900

HENRY ASH SKETCHES: 1893

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
 
1893
Maintenance work

Jully 5, 1893
S.S. Mackay Bennett the Commercial Cable Company's repairing steamer coming into Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia to meet the S.S. Faraday Cranberry Island Lighthouse in the distance

Library and Archives Canada - Henry Ash Fonds: e04414170

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