[Taliaferro Preston Shaffner, full-length portrait, three-quarters to the right, head front, standing, holding a tall hat. On the left is a chair and on the right a small table covered with tablecloth]

Inventor, associate in the introduction of the telegraph and north Atlantic cable; telegraph company official; author and historian. Scratched on face of plate: Schaffner. Scratched on back of plate: 244. Identification from an engraving by J.C. Buttre for Shaffner's Telegraph Manual. Original...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896.
Format: Still Image
Language:English
Published: 1844
Subjects:
Shaffner
Tal. P. > (Taliaferro Preston), > 1818-1881
Mathew
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04159
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Summary:Inventor, associate in the introduction of the telegraph and north Atlantic cable; telegraph company official; author and historian. Scratched on face of plate: Schaffner. Scratched on back of plate: 244. Identification from an engraving by J.C. Buttre for Shaffner's Telegraph Manual. Original served by appointment only. Produced by Mathew Brady's studio. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920. (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress).

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