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Albert J. Myer. Library of Congress description: "Gen. A. J. Meyer, U.S.A. Chief Signal Officer"
Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.03618. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH826- 419

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Date

between 1870 and 1880
Author

Mathew Brady or Levin Handy
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English: Albert James Myer ( September 20, 1828 – August 24, 1880) was a surgeon and U.S. Army officer. He is known as the father of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, as its first chief signal officer just prior to the American Civil War, the inventor of wig-wag signaling (or aerial telegraphy), and also as the father of the U.S. Weather Bureau.

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