Larry Monroe's

Pikes Peak Colorado this was U.S. Signal Service Weather Station, the weather reports were telegraphed from here begining in 1873. in 1893 the Cog Rail Road was installed, and I believe there was a Western Union Office here by that time, in 1993 I found the Blue & White single sided porcelain Western Union Sign in a trash heap, NO I didn't bring it back with me and preserve it. I left it out there to be destroyed by vandals.
Central Pacific Rail Road This was a lookout to dispatch Fire Fighting Tains on Donner Pass, to protect the wooden snow sheds and the timber lands along the tracks, every other section of land along the tracks at a width of 20 miles was given as an incentive to build the Transcontinintal Rail Road.
Simpson Springs UTAH Pony Express Station and bacame a Telegraph Station on the Transcontinental in 1861

PAPER ITEMS

WESTERN UNION

Go-POSTAL

MISCELANEOUS

INSULATOR COLLECTION

GLASS INSULATORS

NON GLASS

Ceramic Insulators
Iron Insulators Rams Horn on left and Bachelor's Patent on right. these insulators are from the ALTA TELEGRAPH lines 1850's - early 1860's

SIGNS

TELEGRAPH SIGNS

BATTERY SIGNS

EXIDE

DISPLAYS

CENTRAL PACIFIC RAIL ROAD

CPRR Booklet Passenger Station Sacramento
CPRR check drawn on the London & San Francisco Bank, July 3, 1884

RIDGE TELEPHONE COMPANY (Worlds First Long Distance Telephone Line 1878) There were 22 stations, the line ran 58 miles up the San Juan Ridge, from French Coral to French Lake and a branch line split off just above Granitville to Milton.

ELECTRICAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO

E.C.&M. Co. S.F.

CALIFORNIA ELECTRICAL WORKS

PAUL SIELER ELECTRICAL WORKS

WIRELESS

SPARK TRANSMITTER Mare Island Navy Yard

TELEPHONE ITEM

BATTERY COLLECTION

NAUTICAL ITEMS

DIVING EQUIPMENT

MORSE DIVING HELMET
MORSE HAND OPERATED AIR PUMPS
MORSE AIR PRESSURE GAGE
DIVING KNIFE

Larry Monroe limonroe@ucdavis.edu

Communications Resources

University of California Davis