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| Title | United States Wireless Telegraph Station, Port Safety, October 2, 1905 |
| Photographer | Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950 |
| Date | 1905 |
| Notes | Caption on image: U.S. Wireless Telegraph Station, Port Safety, Alaska. Oct. 2d 1905. Photo by F.H. Nowell, 4525. |
| Contextual Notes | Port Safety is on a spit between Safety and Norton Sounds, 6 miles east of Cape Nome and 14 miles southwest of Solomon, Seward Peninsula. It was the site of a mining camp established in the summer of 1900 at the height of the Nome gold rush. Safety Post Office was established here in 1900 and discontinued in 1902. (pg. 773) Notes from Donald Orth, Dictionary of Alaska Place Names: Geological Survey Professional Paper 567 (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1967)
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Telegraph offices--Alaska--Port Safety
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Telegraph stations--Alaska--Port Safety
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| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Port Safety |
| Digital Collection | Frank H. Nowell Photographs
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| Order Number | NOW149 |
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Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Frank H. Nowell Photograph Collection. PH Coll 316
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b&w : 8 x 10 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2002. |
