Ephemera
Eastern Telegraph Company
The Eastern Telegraph Co, of Electra House, Moorgate, London was founded through the amalgamation and reorganisation of several companies in 1872 and was to become the largest cable operating company in the world, also active in the Ottoman Empire. Read more: ‘The Eastern Telegraph Company in the Ottoman Empire at the End of the Nineteenth Century: A History of Imperial and Foreign Technology’, Pauline Lewis, 2023. This gallery serves to highlight some of the centres of operation of this once strategically important company both for the Ottomans and Western powers.
Staff of the Eastern telegraph company in Pera, Constantinople in 1922.
Eastern telegraph company offices in Suez, Egypt.
Eastern telegraph company offices in Port Said, Egypt.
Eastern Telegraph Company telegram tax rate from Italy, 1932.
Eastern Telegraph Company house flag
Malta office of the Eastern Telegraph Company
In the foreground the former building of the Eastern Telegraph Company as it stands today on the of island of Syros, Greece.
Blank form and regulation of the Eastern Telegraph Company, 1936.
