CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of painter and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse date from 1826-2009 (bulk 1826-1871), and measure 0.4 linear feet. This small collection ...

Samuel Morse came to Washington in February 1825, an ambitious but frustrated 33-year-old artist. Before the discovery of telegraphy and the code that bears his name, he was nearly as well known ...

Samuel Morse’s Reversal of Fortune It wasn’t until after he failed as an artist that Morse revolutionized communications by inventing the telegraph ...

Richard J. Moylan has overseen a transformation of Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn in his nearly 40 years as president. Now ...

Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse spent summers at his Locust Grove Estate in New York's Hudson Valley. The 14,000-square-foot Italianate villa, built in 1852, has 45 rooms over six floors. It was purchased ...

Morse Code Day, observed on April 27, honors Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code, and celebrates this groundbreaking method of communication. Before modern technology, messages took weeks to ...

DETROIT — An artistic masterpiece that Samuel F.B. Morse painted in the years before he developed the telegraph is being displayed at the Detroit Institute of Arts as part of a traveling ...

Samuel Morse consolidated Louvre masterpieces in an imaginary gallery. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre / Macbeth Gallery Records, Archives of American Art, SI; Terra Foundation for American Art ...