Name/Title
Telegram from Guanajay, Cuba Commissary to Quemados, Cuba.Entry/Object ID
2010.1.1851Scope and Content
Telegram from Guanajay to Quemados, Cuba. The telegram consists of a tyepwritten message on yellow paper, using form 125. Headings on the page are written first in Spanish with the English translation beneath. The message reads as follows: "Guanajay Barracks Cuba 11 Chief Commissary Quemados, Cuba. Present allowance of ice insufficient for refrigerator kindly have eighteen hindred pounds shipped daily instead of the fifteen hundred now being received Wilcox Commissary." The bottom of the page has a handwritten note: "Avs'd Mixed Ice Co. 11 aur brk 22. (Ice telegram book. " Wilcox uers."
The back of the page consists of the following, with the information being written in Spanish, with the English translations beneath. There is a handwritten note written sideways that reads as follows: "Telegram (underlined)
Guanajay
Sept. 11th
1800 lbs. Ice
needed daily
for refrigerator (underlined)
Ice telegrams
to Ice factory
Sept. 11th (underlined)Collection
BechtelAcquisition
Accession
2010.1Source or Donor
Mr. BechtelAcquisition Method
Gift/PurchaseCredit Line
BECHTEL