[26]

‘Yukon Valley News’ (“Successor to Tanana Leader”), Tanana, 7/6/1909 -1/11/1913

 

 

Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist 

 

a.

April 6, 1912 “Captain A. C. Knowles has been relieved from duty with the

 

 

Signal Corps on account of the expiration of his detail in that Corps“

[27]

[PCA 64] “Alaska Communications System Photograph Collection, 1904-1963”, 

 

2199 images, Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, 333 Willoughby Ave., Juneau, 

 

Alaska 99801 [State Office Building, 8th Floor] http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist

 

a.

Document online www.library.state.ak.us/hist/hist_docs/finding_aids/PCA064.doc  

 

b.

Radio station, Ft Gibbon, Tanana, Alaska (building and radio tower)

 

 

http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cdmg11/id/872/rec/2

 

c.

Ft Gibbon from radio tower (village of Tanana, sternwheeler and barge at the dock)

 

 

http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cdmg11/id/875/rec/4

 

d.

Headquarters 3rd Section, W-A M C&T Systems (barracks Co ‘K’ Signal Corps)

 

 

http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cdmg11/id/877/rec/5

 

e.

Ft. Gibbon, Alaska (long row of log cabins with a church above them on a hillside)

 

 

http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cdmg11/id/9235/rec/6

 

f.

Watching the ice break -- Ft. Gibbon (‘break-up’, May 15, 1913)

 

 

http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cdmg11/id/2229/rec/10

 

g.

Fort Gibbon (entrance to Fort Gibbon with a sternwheeler on the river)

 

 

http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/cdmg11/id/2228/rec/21

[28]

[PCA 77] “Nathaniel Todd collection”

 

Nathaniel Todd served with the U.S. Army Signal Corp at Ft. Gibbon., Alaska, 1906-1908.

 

Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, Juneau, http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist

 

a.

Document online www.library.state.ak.us/hist/hist_docs/finding_aids/PCA077.doc

 

8.

Ft. Gibbon. U.S. Army Signal Corp standing in formation in front of Army building.

 

9.

Ft. Gibbon. U.S. Army Signal Corp. Men with dogs and sled in front of building.

 

17.

Ft. Gibbon, U.S. Army Signal Corp. assembly in front of building, w/gear and guns

[29]

[PCA 78] “D. D. Pittman Photograph Collection, 1912-1917”

 

D.D. Pittman was 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. Photographs include Tanana, Fort Gibbon, . . . and his Alaska journals . . .

 

Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, Juneau, http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist

 

a.

Document online www.library.state.ak.us/hist/hist_docs/finding_aids/PCA078.doc

 

1.

Ft. Gibbon, Alaska 4/23/14 [fort buildings beyond 2 stern-wheelers in dry dock].

 

4.

Ft. Gibbon, Alaska, Mar. 6, 1913. [Dog corral with sleds in foreground].

 

5.

Dog corral Ft. Gibbon Alaska March 6, 1913. [Man and dogs inside corral].

 

10.

Ft. Gibbon, AK. 4/23/14 [man in uniform beside snow arch].

 

12.

U.S. Army Signal Corps building at Ft. Gibbon, April 24, 1914; five men on steps

 

55.

Co. ‘B’, 14th Inf. arriving at Ft. Gibbon, Als, July 1914 [river steamer and 3 barges].

 

56.

Co. ’B’ of 14th U.S. Inf. arriving at Ft. Gibbon, Alaska. July 1914 [closer view]

 

b.

Journal, June 1912, Enroute to [and in] Alaska to March 1917, Valdez (photocopy)

 

c.

Typescript of journal, May 30 1912 to May 13, 1913 [by daughter Marcia Johann]

 

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McAninch Family History NL v.XX n.3 / July 2012 / Frank McAninch, Editor / page 2012-30

 

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