| Title |
Telegraph-Operator. |
| Publisher |
[New York] : De Marsan, Publisher of songs, 54 Chatham Str. N.Y. |
| Date |
[not before 1844] |
| Description |
A man sits at a telegraph board with ticker tape around him. A clock hangs on the wall behind him, and in the background another
man reads a ticker tape. The first telegraph message was sent in 1844.
|
| Notes |
Text: O Mighty Operator on the little wire. / A liking I might have for you, / If you were not such a liar.. / But, out of
an hundred words, / Of lies there's ninety-nine! / A man with such a [illegible].
|
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Telegraphers -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.491.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 10.40 |
