Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from verso. View of Matanuska, Alaska, at mile 150 of Alaska Railroad, with railroad car in background and pedestrians on street. Signs on buildings shown read: "O.O. Krogh" and "Hotel Allen. Restaurant." "O.O. Krogh" refers to Oliver...
Title from caption in album: "May 18 - Ranges East of East Fork of Toklat from side high above East cañon 150 sheep were visible on the ranges when I took picture". Photograph shows snowy mountains in the distance.
Color postcard postmarked from Cordova, Alaska on Jul. 13, 1909 and addressed to Mr. L.J. Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. Written on verso, "Cordova, Alaska. June 10, 09. Dear folks at home, I arrived in...
Title taken from caption. "11528 -- (10) The cost of constructing cabins in the Klondike during the latter part of 1897 was considerable. Logs were selling at $50 apiece, and wages were from $15 to $20 per day. An ordinary one-room cabin...
Title taken from caption. "9208 -- (26) The White men who made packing a business on the Dyea trail in 1898 carried from 75 to 150 pounds at a time, while the Indian packers carried from 100 to 250 pounds each. At short intervals on the left of...
Title taken from caption. View showing new concrete sidewalk on Fourth Street between E and F in the Anchorage town site. During the summer of 1917, 18 blocks of 12 foot concrete sidewalks, and two blocks of 6 foot concrete walks were...
Caption on photograph: To E. L. "Bob" Bartlett, a true Alaska pioneer, sincere best regards, Noel Wien. Verso: July 1924, from left: James Rodebough, owner of the two planes. Eddie Hudson, Fairbanks born son, taking flying lessons & pilot Noel...
Title taken from donor's caption. A cabin stands next to two tents. Behind them are trees and mountains; in front, possibly piles of fuelwood and a rack hung with skins or fish for drying. "The unwritten law of the early day Alaskan...
Title from verso. "Jade from jade [mountain] Alaska. 150 mi East of Kotzebue. [Awaiting pickup by the owners in the Wien hangar in Fairbanks.] 2 1/2 tons Jade, [moose] antlers. 44 x 21 1/2, 81%. Wien Alaska Airlines & Photo by Frank Whaley...
Title taken from caption. Sidney Connor walking along the Juneau-Douglas bridge. From May's journal, dated May 27th: "Wednesday afternoon Connor and I walked part of the way to Douglas, over the new $150,000 bridge. We got pretty wet for it has...
Title taken from caption. In front of the church at Nikolskoye village, Bering Island. According to Alan May's journal, he later discovered that this was not Bering's grave but a monument to Bering erected 150 years after his death. May also notes...