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Box PCA0296

 Container

Contains 37 Results:

Cape Spencer Lighthouse crane lowering motor launch over side to men waiting below in small boat. When launch was in water, engine would be started before casting off from hook. Then waiting men would enter motor launch and tow small boat behind.

 Item — Box: PCA0296
Identifier: PCA0296-31
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The photos were taken by C.W. Amos enroute to Cape Spencer and during the time he was stationed there as a Coast Guard radioman and weather observer. Photos include travel to the Cape Spencer Lighthouse, winter storms, accident off Five Finger Lighthouse, Christmas celebrations, other members of the lighthouse crew, and daily activities.

Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 296, C. W. Amos Photograph Collection, 1944 1945

Cape Spencer Lighthouse engine room. Howard Brenna, M.M. 2/C, in front (with a member of a work party in rear) overhauling diesel generator.

 Item — Box: PCA0296
Identifier: PCA0296-32
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The photos were taken by C.W. Amos enroute to Cape Spencer and during the time he was stationed there as a Coast Guard radioman and weather observer. Photos include travel to the Cape Spencer Lighthouse, winter storms, accident off Five Finger Lighthouse, Christmas celebrations, other members of the lighthouse crew, and daily activities.

Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 296, C. W. Amos Photograph Collection, 1944 1945

Grocery storage room in basement... [food] brought out approximately twice a month on mail boat, depending on weather.

 Item — Box: PCA0296
Identifier: PCA0296-33
Scope and Contents

[from Juneau and Ketchikan]

Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 296, C. W. Amos Photograph Collection, 1944 1945

Beacon transmitters for aircraft and ships ‑ synchronized with fog horns...

 Item — Box: PCA0296
Identifier: PCA0296-34
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The photos were taken by C.W. Amos enroute to Cape Spencer and during the time he was stationed there as a Coast Guard radioman and weather observer. Photos include travel to the Cape Spencer Lighthouse, winter storms, accident off Five Finger Lighthouse, Christmas celebrations, other members of the lighthouse crew, and daily activities.

Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 296, C. W. Amos Photograph Collection, 1944 1945

Kitchen.

 Item — Box: PCA0296
Identifier: PCA0296-35
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The photos were taken by C.W. Amos enroute to Cape Spencer and during the time he was stationed there as a Coast Guard radioman and weather observer. Photos include travel to the Cape Spencer Lighthouse, winter storms, accident off Five Finger Lighthouse, Christmas celebrations, other members of the lighthouse crew, and daily activities.

Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 296, C. W. Amos Photograph Collection, 1944 1945

Living room ‑ C.W. Amos, Jr., R.M. 3/C.

 Item — Box: PCA0296
Identifier: PCA0296-36
Scope and Contents

[seated]

Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 296, C. W. Amos Photograph Collection, 1944 1945

Battery room, supplying power for all equipment and kept charged by two diesel generators.

 Item — Box: PCA0296
Identifier: PCA0296-37
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The photos were taken by C.W. Amos enroute to Cape Spencer and during the time he was stationed there as a Coast Guard radioman and weather observer. Photos include travel to the Cape Spencer Lighthouse, winter storms, accident off Five Finger Lighthouse, Christmas celebrations, other members of the lighthouse crew, and daily activities.

Dates: 1944-1945
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 296, C. W. Amos Photograph Collection, 1944 1945