Photograph of two men thawing holes for telegraph poles with a miner's boiler as well as a dogsled team on the trail and five men. Hand written note states that this photograph occurred: "just after leaving a bunch of ptarmigan at the cook tent. ER...
Photograph of George M. Woods, a civilian lineman who worked with the WAMCATS construction parties during the 1910-1913 seasons. A hand written note on the album notes him as the construction photographer. Also visible are the telegraph wire and...
Photograph of a man reading the Army Navy Register in the headquarters tent of the WAMCATS construction camp. Visible on a box is a typewriter and one of the boxes is a crate of bacon that held 6-12 lb. cans--packed in May 1911 in Buffalo, New...
Title from caption. Photograpoh of two ridges with the following caption: One of several canyons crossed by the telegraph line between Donnelly and McCallum. Requires a full-grown man as a lineman to cover this route, either winter or summer.
Photograph of the construction camp and the Signal Corp relief cabin at the Overland Roadhouse between Salcha and Delta. Overland Roadhouse is also known as the Fox Farm lodge and the Silver Fox Roadhouse.
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Photograph of a section of forrest with the following caption: A desolate scene from trail 54 miles above Fairbanks. No signs of civlization in sight; heavy 'wind-fall' in foreground, timber all fire killed except a...
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 Alaska Engineering Commission radio stations and antennas in Government Hill area of Anchorage, Alaska. Radio station was later owned by WAMCATS (Washington-Alaska Military Communications and Telegraph Systems) and...
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...