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

Memorabilia & Ephemera

This seal, made from a piece of the 1858 Atlantic cable, is in the Bell Canada Historical Collection. The image showing the owner's initials has been photographically reversed for clarity.

The Bell Collection also includes another identical seal with different initials; that seal was given to its first owner by his employer, the Hudson's Bay Company, probably in the late 1800s.

Images copyright © 2006 Bell Canada Historical Collection. Used by permission.

Research Material Needed

The Atlantic Cable website is non-commercial, and its mission is to make available on line as much information as possible.

You can help - if you have cable material, old or new, please contact me. Cable samples, instruments, documents, brochures, souvenir books, photographs, family stories, all are valuable to researchers and historians.

If you have any cable-related items that you could photograph, copy, scan, loan, or sell, please email me: billb@ftldesign.com