Sujet

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, 1858. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable - Valentia, 1858. 'View of Valentia, to which island considerable interest attaches in connection with the Atlantic Telegraph, as it is destined to receive the European end of the cable, being "the nearest parish to America." This island, about five miles long and two broad, is situated near the southwest of Ireland, a short distance south of Dingle Bay'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A81_474

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

18,3Mo (1,8Mo) / 32,6cm x 14,1cm / 3845 x 1662 (300dpi)

Mots clés

ocean sea coast hill hills technology communication communications cable arts coastal industry remote art island British geography color peninsula Ireland industrial innovation Atlantic Ocean telecommunications location century Britain newspapers press print company concept Kerry telegraph telecommunication B&W west coast engraved engraving transatlantic trans-atlantic Colour County Kerry 19th century black & white black and white B W Munster white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Atlantic Telegraph Company cable-laying geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper landscape Unknown Valentia Island 19th-century Iveragh Peninsula