Report on Military Telegraph Lines in Porto Rico
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1900. First edition. 8vo, 100pp. Color folding map, 42x108cm attached at rear. Stitched, lacking wrappers or disbound from a larger publication, paper toned with light chipping. Map clean. A good copy.
Senate Document No. 429, 56th congress. This report was given by Adolphus Washington Greely (1844-1935) then Brigadier General and Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army. Greely was in charge of maintaining communications networks during the Spanish-American War and oversaw construction and maintenance of telegraph lines in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines.
The map in this report is "Map of the Island of Porto Rico Showing the lines of signal communication, telegraph, telephone, and heliograph, operated by the Signal Corps, U.S. Army, with Military Posts." It was prepared by major William A. Glassford under the direction of Greely.
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