Inventor Name
Gibbs, George Sabin
Repository
Library of Congress
Manuscript Division
101 Independence Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20540-4680
202-707-5387
www.loc.gov
Physical Description
1.6 linear feet
Summary
Correspondence, field notebook (1898-1899), telegrams, reports, memoranda, military records, clippings, printed material, and other papers chiefly concerning Gibbs's career leading up to his appointment as U.S. Army chief signal officer in 1928. Includes papers relating to his service in the Philippines during the Philippine American war, 1899-1902, and in Cuba during the American occupation, 1906-1909. Also includes correspondence relating to his career with International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation and Postal Telegraph-Cable Company. Correspondents include Sosthenes Behn, Dwight Filley Davis, Adolphus W. Greely, William Mitchell, Edgar Russel, and Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright.