Western Union Telegraph Expedition - Duplicate Transcripts of Kennicott's Notes, undated
About the Project
Where would you lay a telegraph cable to connect San Francisco, California to Moscow, Russia? In 1865, the Western Union Telegraph Company considered going through Russian America [now Alaska], over the Bering Sea and across Russia as a potentially viable solution. They commissioned three division to investigate with naturalists recruited as part of the two year expedition. Lead naturalist for the Russian America group, Robert Kennicott would eventually die in the field and leadership passed to William Dall for the remainder of the expedition. Please join us in transcribing these handwritten duplicates of Kennicott notes.
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