Harry Leroy Davis photographs, 1914-1923.

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Harry Leroy Davis photographs, 1914-1923.

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The Harry Leroy Davis Photographs consist of 42 photographs showing primarily United States Army Signal Corps buildings, equipment and personnel at Nulato, Alaska, when Nulato was part of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System or WAMCATS. Also included are scenes of Fort Yukon and Fairbanks, Alaska, as well as images of Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe at Fort Yukon and President Warren G. Harding at Fairbanks.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Davis, Harry Leroy.

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Harding, Warren Gamaliel, 1865-1923

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Warren Gamaliel Harding (b. November 2, 1865, Blooming Grove, Ohio-d. August 2, 1923, San Francisco, California) was an American politician who served as the 29th President of the United States from March 4, 1921 until his death in 1923....

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...