Edward R. McFarland photographs, 1911-1914.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Edward R. McFarland photographs, 1911-1914.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/461355534

The Edward R. McFarland Photographs consist of one album of photographs of U.S. Army Signal Corps construction work on the second section of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System in the years 1911 through 1914. The 146 images document construction activities and camp life in the region of Interior Alaska running from Tolovana south to Jarvis Creek. The photographs are well identified.

0.40 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7561797

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

McFarland, E. R. (Edward R.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jm69m2 (person)

Construction on the second section of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System in the years 1911-1914 was done under the direction of Lieutenants Singleton, Harris and Eastman, Corporal Edward R. McFarland, NCO in charge, and Corporal Charles Cavanaugh, construction quartermaster, all U.S. Army Signal Corps, and George M. Woods, civilian lineman and photographer. Edward R. McFarland (d. 1942) was a corporal in the U.S. Army Signal Corps when he was NCO i...

United States. Army. Signal Corps

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dg0gvc (corporateBody)

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...