Photo #: NH 105467
USS Buffalo (1898-1927, later AD-8)
Coaling ship at Cordova, Alaska, between late July and mid-September
1914, during the 1914 Alaskan Radio Expedition.
The coal that has been dumped onto the pier from the railroad
coal cars is being loaded into wheelbarrows by Sailors and local
laborers using large coal shovels and is then being taken to
the ship.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Admiral
Montgomery M. Taylor, donated by Louisa R. Alger, 1962.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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