Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Contents | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Samuel Finley Breese Morse papers, 1793-1944 |
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Span Dates | 1793-1944 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1807-1872) |
ID No. | MSS33670 |
Creator | Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 |
Extent | 10,060 items ; 73 containers plus 3 oversize ; 18.4 linear feet ; 36 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Summary | Artist and inventor. Family and general correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other papers. Includes letters from Samuel Finley Breese Morse to his family describing his studies in England during the War of 1812 and his subsequent struggle to support himself as a portrait painter in the United States; correspondence and other papers relating to Morse's invention of the telegraph, law suits over patents, and his dispute with Joseph Henry who also claimed to have invented the telegraph. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms997010 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Online Catalog record for this collection: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm75033670 |