1922: Radio connects remote Alaska villages to medical advice
The U.S. Signal Corps establishes a radio network to link Alaska Native villages with doctors and nurses in Anchorage. They provide medical advice to Native peoples who would have to travel many days to obtain medical care.
- Theme
- Medicine Ways
- Region
- Arctic, Northwest Coast, Subarctic
U.S. telegraph station, Thompson Pass, Alaska, ca. 1918–1925. Thomson pass, a 2,805 foot-high gap in the Chugach Mountains east of Valdez, is the snowiest place in Alaska. The pass had been used by the Alaska Native people for generations.
Courtesy Alaska State Library, Telegraph Stations-Military Photograph Collection
Tonsina, Alaska telegraph station, ca. 1912
Courtesy McKeown family photographs, Alaska Historical Society, Archives and Special Collections, Consortium Library
Part of Alaska communications systems built by the U.S Signal Corps
Courtesy Alaska State Library, U.S. Alaska Communications System Photograph Collection