print email comment close Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sfbmhtml/ Description: This collection documents Morse's invention of the electromagnetic telegraph, role in developing telegraph systems, "career as a painter, his family life, his travels, and his interest in early photography, religion, and the nativist movement." Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, maps, drawings, and material from various publications. Also features a biographical timeline and a family tree. Searchable. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. Publisher: Library of Congress Extra Keywords notableinventors Library of Congress Subject Headings: Inventors -- United States Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 People Telegraph -- History LII Database Information: Record 8819 created by Tom McGibney on 10/23/2001 Last modification on 11/28/2004 Published: 10/23/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8819