Title from image caption Full caption: "Aboard the government cable ship, BURNSIDE, Wednesday, August 24, 1904, for the official splicing of the two sections of the Alaska Cable, [which] took place ten miles from Seattle on the return of the...
Title taken from image. Attached clipping: Aboard the Government Cable Ship, "BURNSIDE", Wednesday, August 24, 1904, for the official splicing of the Two Sections of the Alaska Cable took place ten miles from Seattle on the return of the ship...
John J. Sesnon Co.'s cable way for landing freight at Nome. 1400 feet long, shore tower 125 feet high, Cassion tower 90 feet above highwater. The largest cable way of its kind in the world.
Title taken from front. View of men using boats to haul WAMCATS (Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph Station) cable ashore from the ship "Burnside", Valdez, Alaska. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." Photographer's...
Title taken from front. View of men standing on top of cable structure used to unload freight from ships on Bering Sea, Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 1033. n.d. Photographer: Goetze.
"Hand operated steel cable ferry, constructed by O. & S. to span the 70 Mile River when the waters were too high for fording. It was located at a point called 'Nimrod Bar.' Nimrod worked for O. & S. at Crooked Creek, but had also worked his own...
Title taken from verso. A view of the United States military telegraph and cable office in Valdez, Alaska. The U.S. flag is on the flagpole to the right of the telegraph office, a bicycle leans against the building, and a car is parked on the...
View looking west along route of proposed White Alice Communications cable on Ohlson Mountain near Homer, Alaska, with Aircraft Control & Warning wall construction at left. The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force...
Title from verso. Verso: Cold Bay, 10 Nov. 50. Submarine cable terminal equipment located in basement of comm.. center. Relay panel for Dutch harbor cable visible in left hand rack adjacent to siphon recorder table.
Title taken from caption. " Cable Office, Valdez, and sergeants in charge, Oct. 1, 1904. " Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. G67. Reproduced from a glass plate.
Title taken from front. View of cable tramways over Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, during Alaska Engineering Commission railroad construction. Also from front: "A.E.C. G-1731." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G1781. March 6,...
Title taken from image. A wooden carving is attached to the utility pole in front of building. Verso: Haines U.S. Military Telegraph and cable office, Photo taken c. 1904-05.
Title taken from caption. Two women, one holding an infant, pose on the front porch of a two story building at 221 Sixth Avenue in Seward, Alaska. Also from caption: "221 6th Ave." 1908? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original photograph size: 4 1/4"...