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...
View of Knik Arm, Cook Inlet, from Anchorage, Alaska, with railroad tracks in foreground and ship in inlet. From verso: " Knik Arm, Cook Inlet. Anch[orage] ocean dock on right. U.S. Cable Ship Delwood in inlet. Alaska Railroad tracks in foreground....
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...