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WOODEN TOWERS & SIGNAL POLES
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Wooden Towers & Signal Poles
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Building crew after finishing the tower.Party off the MARINDUQUE
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Building a tower.Party off the MARINDUQUE
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The finished tower - note guard in lower left of tower.Party off the MARINDUQUE
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A finished large tripod signal - note the guards.Party off the MARINDUQUE
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115-foot tower built around tree on Sarangani Island.
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Another view of tower built around a tree on Sarangani Island
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Small tower on a coral islet
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Tower with signal
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239-foot tower built on Bugsuk Island in southwest Philippines.This tower was built completely from native timber cut on location.It took 19 men off the PATHFINDER three weeks to build this signal.This was the largest wooden tower ever built by the C
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Using a day marker as a tower.Photo#1 of sequence
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Observing angles from the top of the day marker.Photo#2 of sequence
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Tower built around tree in the Philippine jungle.
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Triangulation station built in shoal water.Combined operations party of Hubert A. Paton
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Tower built around a tree trunk.
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Station Plainview in eastern Montana.Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter
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Station Cook - tower had to be built after error by reconnaissance man.Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter
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Hecht was the observer at this station in North Dakota.Small wooden observing stand.Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter
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103-foot light stand at Station Red Cloud.
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Climbing a small tower at Station Pinnacle.Providing horizontal control survey for aerial photography of King County
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Pole tower built from native timber at Takhini West Base.Note signal flag on tree.Triangulation party of F. B. Quinn
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