D.D. Pittman photograph collection, 1912-1917. [graphic].

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D.D. Pittman photograph collection, 1912-1917. [graphic].

65 photoprints : b&w + papers.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7625188

Alaska State Library

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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...

Pittman, D. D.

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D.D. Pittman served 30 years in the military from July 7, 1898, until July 27, 1921. He served as the Chief Telegraph Officer and Cashier with the U.S. Army Signal Corp at Fort Gibbon and Valdez, Alaska between June 1912 and March 1917. Fort Gibbon was the detail headquarters and distributing point of the U.S. military telegraph and cable service. He died in 1958 at the age of 83. From the description of D.D. Pittman photograph collection, 1912-1917. [graphic]. (Alaska State Library)...