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Collection Name	Farnsworth Family Papers
Identifier	UAF-1972-175-CO
Title	Farnsworth Family Papers, 1899-1943.
Description	These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood and unloading passengers, in dock for the winter, and so on. Judge James Wickersham, the District Judge at Eagle in 1900, is shown with his family at a social function at Fort Egbert . C. S. Farnsworth was born in 1863 in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. He had a common school education. At age 18 he worked with a telegraph construction gang until the summer of 1883 when he was appointed a cadet at West Point. He served in the Dakota Territory and in Montana. He was assigned as Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University of North Dakota in 1893. He served in Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, and Cuba until April 1899 when he was promoted to Captain . In June 1899, his company was ordered to Alaska. Captain Farnsworth, commanding Company E, Seventh Infantry, served in Alaska from 1899 to 1901 overseeing the construction of Fort Gibbon near Tanana and Fort Egbert near Eagle. He was also in charge of constructing telegraph lines in this part of Alaska . He returned to Fort Gibbon in 1910 as a Major, assigned to the 16th U.S. Infantry and remained for one year.
Subject.TGM	Military life Military personnel
Personal Name	Farnsworth, C. S. Farnsworth, Robert Wickersham, James, 1857-1939
Corporate Name	United States. Army
Location	Fort Egbert (Alaska) Eagle (Alaska) Tanana (Alaska)
Region	Interior Alaska
Time Period	1896 to 1913
Date.original	1899 - 1901; 1910 - 1911
Type	Collection Image (Photographs)
Ordering & Use	For information on ordering and using this material: http://library.uaf.edu/order-photos
Holding Institution	Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.
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Collection Name	Farnsworth Family Papers
Identifier	UAF-1972-175-288
Title	42 Gold Run.
Description	Title from captions in cataloger's notes . Sluices and buildings are seen along a hillside . Original photo size: 6 1/2" x 8".
Subject.TGM	Buildings Gold mining Mining Sluices
Location	Dawson (Yukon)
Region	Outside
Time Period	1896 to 1913
Date.original	1901;
Type	Image (Photographs)
Ordering & Use	For information on ordering and using this material: http://library.uaf.edu/order-photos
Holding Institution	Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.; mailto:UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu --(907) 474-2791--PO Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808.

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