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      Creator(s):
unknown

Date: 1869 -

Description: Piece of telegraph cable, probably the 1869 cable, recovered from East Beach in 1998 by Robert Gunn. It is encrusted with sand concretia with stones.

Format: realia
Object: cables
Material: iron;  tarred hemp;  rubber

Titles:
Telegraph Cable

Subjects: cables

Institution: George Town and District Historical Society Inc.

Object number: GTH_PS0830

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