General A.W. Greely photograph collection [graphic], 1900-1905.

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General A.W. Greely photograph collection [graphic], 1900-1905.

https://library.alaska.gov/hist/hist_docs/finding_aids/PCA385.doc

The images are computer-generated scans created from the original collection at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. Includes ten Point Barrow Expedition photographs and the remainder are from A.W. Greely's five inspection trips to Alaska, 1900-1905, during the construction of the Washington Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System (WAMCATS) by the Army Signal Corps. Most of the photographs were taken by Miles Bros.

33 photographs : b&w.

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International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska 1881 - 1883

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Miles Bros.

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