Specimen of the Atlantic Cable
Unknown artist
Date: 1856–65
Medium: Metal
Themes: Transatlantic Cable
Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892
Date range
1856 – 1865
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Specimen of the Atlantic Cable
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