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Identification of item, date (if known); Miscellaneous Historic Map Collection; MS 065; box number; folder number; Western Connecticut State University Archives
Colonial Systems of the World: Submarine Telegraph Connections Map: 1902
Publisher: United States Treasury Department
folding map of the World, colored to highlight the distribution of Colonies and their Colonial masters.
A note at the bottom identifies the 13 countries which were then "colonial powers."
At the bottom left, a list of 13 nations and 26 private companies which were then operating Submarine Telegraph Connections around the World. The lines of each are noted, along with a distance in miles.
A proposed US cable from San Francisco to Manila is also noted, traversing Hawaii.
From Family Magazine. Digitized in Google books (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Family_Magazine/xBNLAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+family+magazine%22+%22plan+of+the+battle+of+long+island%22&pg=PA433&printsec=frontcover)