Album of 11 mounted sepia photographs of the Atlantic Telegraph Expedition 1866 showing the cable laying machinery, Great Eastern entering Hearts Content Bay, Newfoundland, picking up machinery and the buoys.
These photographs were taken by J Thomson of 21 High Park Street, Liverpool, of the second Atlantic cable expedition, in 1866 which was utlimately successful, not only succeeding in laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable, but also retrieving the cable which had been lost in 1865.
J Thomson is probably John Thomson (1837-1921), Royal Geographical Society Instructor in Photography. John Thomson wrote in 1867, ‘a short description of the photographs of the Atlantic telegraph cable machinery taken on board the steamship Great Eastern, Liverpool’.
