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[PCA 175] “United States Army Signal Corps Photograph Collection, 1889-1970” |
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194 images “. . . historical military . . . National Archives and at the U.S. Army Pentagon” |
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Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, Juneau, http://www.library.state.ak.us/hist |
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Document online www.library.state.ak.us/hist/hist_docs/finding_aids/PCA175.doc |
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Signal Corps Radio Station, Ft. Gibbon, Alaska. (NA 111-SC-68187) |
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Fort Gibbon, man in uniform at wireless station, Sept. 1909. (NA. 111-RB-998) |
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Fort Gibbon: . . . engine and dynamo at wireless station, 1909.] (NA. 111-RB-999) |
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Fort Gibbon: operator with headset, wireless room, 1915. (NA. 111-RB-6089) |
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Signal Corps Radio Station, Fort Gibbon 1909 [outside view] (NA. 111-RB-997) |
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Officers, garrison of Fort Gibbon, Alaska, 1901 [five officers]. (NA. 111-RB-2694) |
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Fort Gibbon, 1901, U.S. Telegraph Barge No. 1 on supports (NA. 111-RB-2673) |
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‘Farnsworth Papers’ [‘Charles S. Farnsworth Papers’ (Ft. Gibbon 1899-1900, 1910-1911); |
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‘Robert J. Farnsworth Papers’ (son of Charles), ‘Farnsworth Family Papers 1899-1977’]; |
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University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF), Alaska & Polar Regions Collections, Fairbanks |
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Charles Stewart Farnsworth (1862-1955), from Clarion, Pennsylvania, graduated |
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from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, in 1887; overseas service included |
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Alaska, Cuba, the Philippines, and Mexico. He served twice in Alaska, first as a |
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Captain with E Company, 7th Infantry, building Fort Gibbon, 1899-1900 and |
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Fort Egbert, 1900-1901, then as a major with the 16th Infantry, stationed at |
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Fort Gibbon in 1910-1911. |
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‘papers’ have copies of his monthly reports, did not mention enlisted men by name |
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‘Alaska Post Returns, Fort Gibbon, Alaska, 1910 to 1912’, United States Army, |
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Continental Commands, 1821-1920; Fort Gibbon, Jan. 1907 to Dec. 1916; NARA M617; |
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Transcription in Appendix A (below), Notes A.1 through A.15 [Source: Note A.1] |
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‘Army Post Returns’ only show the names of the officers, along with the number of |
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enlisted servicemen in different categories [e.g. ‘Present and Fit for Duty’ (‘PFD’), |
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‘Special Duty’, ‘Sick’, ‘Arrest and Confinement’ (‘A&C’), and ‘Enlisted Total’). . |
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‘Fort Gibbon Military Records, 1910-1911’, at University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF); |
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Transcription in Appendix B (below), Notes B.1 through B.6 [Source: Note B.1] |
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Unfortunately, any subsequent book(s) (records after Feb. 1911) have been lost |
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‘Coatesville Newspaper Articles about Vern McAninch, October 1912’ |
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Transcriptions in Appendix C. (below), with source citations and Notes C.1., C.2., C.3. |
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“Back from Alaska”, Coatesville Herald, Thursday, 17 Oct. 1912 |
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“A Brave Life Ended”, Coatesville Herald, Thursday, 24 Oct. 1912 |
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“Came From Alaska To Die”, Plainfield [Indiana] Friday Caller, Fri. 25 Oct. 1912 |
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“Obituary” / Vern Wilson McAninch, Coatesville Herald, Thursday, 31 Oct. 1912 |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XX n.3 / July 2012 / Frank McAninch, Editor / page 2012-31 |