Photo #: NH 65487
"Atlantic Cable Half a Century Old"
Pen & ink drawing by Samuel Wart Stanton, circa 1908, prepared
in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1858 laying of the first
successful trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.
The artwork features a depiction of USS Niagara (right)
and HMS Agamemnon beginning to lay the cable in late July
1858. Its first message, from Queen Victoria to President James
Buchanan, was sent on 16 August, but the cable operated for only
three weeks before it failed.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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