John H. Hoeppel photograph collection, 1900-1906.

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John H. Hoeppel photograph collection, 1900-1906.

The John H. Hoeppel Photograph Collection contains 94 photographs, 78 of them taken in Alaska during Hoeppel's tours of duty as signal operator and telegraph lineman for the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Included are images of Fort Egbert, Fort Gibbon, Tanana Crossing, Kokrines, and Sitka, Alaska; Alaska Natives; and personnel and activities of the Signal Corps. The Alaskan photographs are well captioned. The 15 non-Alaskan photographs include images of unidentified people and scenes of Chicago, Illinois.

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United States. Army. Signal Corps

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Hoeppel, John H.

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John H. Hoeppel, a member of the U. S. Army Signal Corps, participated in construction of the Army's telegraph lines in Alaska and also worked as an Army signal operator at several stations in the territory. He spent the winter of 1900-1901 at the Kokrines station on the Yukon River and the summer of 1901 as a telegraph lineman along the Yukon below Kokrines. He spent early 1905 at Tanana Crossing on the upper Tanana River. For the year 1905-06 he was operator in charge at Fort Egbert (Eagle, Al...