ISHING TELEGRAPHIC
COMMUNICATION, BY MEANS OF THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH, CONNECTING THE OLD
WITH THE NEW WORLD. To the left, the American shield; to the right, a
star formed of thirty-one smaller stars; below, the terrestrial globe,
showing AMERICA and EUROPE, surrounded with electric sparks,
surmounted by a torch and a caduceus crossed, and resting on branches
of laurel and of oak.

J. GOLDSBOROUGH BRUFF was in 1872 one of the designing artists (p. 419)
attached to the Treasury Department in Washington. He designed
the face of this medal.

WILLIAM BARBER, at present engraver to the United States Mint in
Philadelphia, was born in London, England. The principal medals
engraved by him are those of Cyrus W. Field, Elliot, Rittenhouse,
James Pollock, Joseph Pancoast, and Dr. Linderman.

CYRUS WEST FIELD was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, November 30,
1819. He went to New York city at the age of fifteen, and entered a
commercial house. He was one of the first promoters of an Atlantic
telegraph, and founded the New York, Newfoundland, and London
Telegraph Company in 1854; organized the Atlantic Telegraph Company in
1856; and took a leading part in the various attempts to lay a
transatlantic cable. He received a vote of thanks and a gold medal
from Congress for the final success of this great undertaking. He is
still living.

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ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

_Resolution of Congress Voting a Medal to Cyrus W. Field._

_Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled_: That the thanks
of Congress be, and they hereby are, presented to Cyrus W. Field
of New York, for his foresight, courage and determination in
establishing telegraphic communication by means of the Atlantic
cable, traversing mid-ocean and connecting the Old World with the
New; and that the President of the United States be requested to
cause a gold medal to be struck, with suitable emblems, devices,
and inscription, to be presented to Mr. Field.

_And be it further resolved_, That when the medal shall have been
struck, the President shall cause a copy of this joint resolution
to be engrossed on parchment, and shall transmit the same,
together with the medal, to Mr. Field to be presented to him in
the name of the people of the United States of America.

_And further_, That a sufficient s