These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title taken from caption. "New Bridge Completed." Additional note on the photograph reads: "The Break-up, May 1917 Fairbanks Alaska by A.J.P" A large crowd can be seen on the bridge, as others on the river banks watch the spring...
Title taken from front. View of men standing on completed Alaska Engineering Commission Railway bridge over Matanuska River, Matanuska Valley, Alaska, during railroad construction. From front: "A.E.C. G31." From information with photo:...
Title taken from verso. Aerial view of partially completed Prospect Creek Camp during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska, with fuel bladder tanks at lower right. Sept. 8, 1972. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph...
Title taken from front. View of trail being completed above Turnagain Arm, Alaska, during Alaska Railroad construction. Also from front: "A.E.C. G216." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G216. 1916? Photographer: P.S....
Title taken from front. The Sacred Heart Catholic Church which stands on what is now 5th Avenue in Seward, Alaska. The building was completed in 1910. A small building stands in the right background near a body of water. Also from front: "S....
Construction workers on a partly completed truss of bridge. Three stand on the bridge, and one or two are above on a girder. Many visible cables hold parts of the bridge in place.
Shows proposed and completed telegraph lines worldwide and detailed routes of various explorers. Includes inset table of distances. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington. Printed by H. P. Cooper.
Shows rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, bays, boundaries. Relief shown by hill shading and spot heights. "Compiled at the Surveyor General's Office by the late J. Johnston, Geographer of the Interior; completed for publication by Jacob Smith." ...
Shows rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, bays, boundaries. Relief shown by hill shading and spot heights. "Compiled at the Surveyor General's Office by the late J. Johnston, Geographer of the Interior; completed for publication by Jacob Smith." ...
Shows telegraph lines completed, under construction and proposed. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Inset: Continuation of Canadian line. Includes list of distances and legend.
Photograph label reads: "The railroad, under Mr. Browne's administration would have been nearly completed and large sums would have been saved for the Government had it not been hampered by the laxity of Congress in meeting...
Photograph label reads: "The railroad was built and completed between Fairbanks and Nenana on the north side of the river during early spring of 1920."
Photograph label reads: "From Nenana it is completed 56 miles to the Nenana canyon where heavy rock work was encountered and three tunnels have to be driven, two 500 ft. each and one 600 ft."
Full label reads: "Laying steel on Tanana river, Spring of 1919. This track was used to transfer rolling stock to the railroad on north side of river where the road had been completed to Fairbanks."