Margaret M. & Roy J. Wheat collection, 1917-1940's [graphic].

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Margaret M. & Roy J. Wheat collection, 1917-1940's [graphic].

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The photographs of the Wheat collection are of Nome and Interior Alaska; the date range is 1917-1940's. Notes are found on the back sides of photos written in both black and blue ink. The first folder contains collection-related documents, Roy J. Wheat's discharge from the Signal Corps, obituaries, and some larger prints of photographs found in later folders; there are also photographs of Captain Roald Amundson, Norwegian explorer (1920). The second folder contains black and white photographs (1917-1919) which were originally banded between two small pieces of wood. The third folder contains black and white photographs (1917-1919) which were held in three photo envelopes.

1 box (150 b&w photographs)

Alaska State Library

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Alaska State Library

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Wheat, Roy J.

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Roy J. Wheat, Sr., was born Dec. 23, 1893, in Laramie, Wyoming. He died January 3, 1991, at the age of 97, in Boise, Idaho. He was a veteran of World War I with the U.S. Army's Signal Corps. He was employed by the U.S. Government at Sand Point Naval Air Station, retiring in 1959. From the description of Margaret M. & Roy J. Wheat collection, 1917-1940's [graphic]. (Alaska State Library). WorldCat record id: 246779532 ...

Wheat, Margaret M.

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Author, geologist, anthropologist, of Fallon, Nev.; b. 1908; d. 1988. From the description of Margaret M. Wheat papers, 1960-1967. (Nevada State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 676694707 ...

United States. Army. Signal Corps

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Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...