Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Ms., photographic reproduction. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes key to location and names of bars on Seventymile River. Map is 32 x 21 cm.
Three maps on one sheet. Components: Yukon River and tributaries showing routes of river steamers and trading stations of Alaska Com'l. Co. -- Klondike River and surrounding gold fields, N.W.T. -- General map of Alaska showing routes of Aflaska...
Pilot chart of the Yukon River, showing wood storage sites and the amount of wood, cabins, villages, gravesites, sawmills, mines and creeks along the riverbanks. Sand bars and various features of the river are drawn in, and a dashed line indicates...
Title taken from caption. View of railroad cars and river boat up on shore along Tanana River at Nenana, Alaska. Photograph taken Sept. 5, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Shows headwaters of the MacMillan River west to Fort Selkirk. Relief shown by form lines and spot heights. "To illustrate report of R.G. McConnell, B.A." "To accompany paart A, Vol. XV." "No. 805."
Title from caption. From verso: "Showing approaches and falsework for Lower Chords, Slana Bridge." Bridge construction over a river in early winter. There are men at work, a tractor and other equipment on the road, a boat in the river, and...
Title taken from front. View of railroad construction camp at Kings River, looking down Matanuska River, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G220." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G220. 1916....
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway Kings River construction camp along Matanuska River, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G229." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G229....
View of collapse of Copper River and Northwestern Railway bridge into Copper River, near Chitina, Alaska. From front: "Copper River Railway bridge at Chitina Aug 17, 1932." From verso: "Copper River. 5 bridge carpenters lost their lives on this...
Title taken from front. View looking up Chickaloon River in Southcentral Alaska, with aerial tramway over Matanuska River, man walking along river, and horses hitched to wagon at right. Also from front: "A.E.C. G-1865." An Alaska Engineering...
Title from caption. Caption also includes the number 338 and the word "Photocraft." Verso reads: "Ice breaking up in Copper River at the Chitina crossing Mile 132 C.R. & N.W. Ry. Stringers and rails taken up to save them from going into river....
Ms., pen and ink on paper. Shows locations of cabins with owners' names, villages, creek and river names, mountains, caves and other geographical features along and adjacent to the Porcupine River. Relief shown by hachures. Base map: Porcupine...
Shows locations of trails between Old Crow village and Old Crow River, Yukon Territory, and cabins with owners' names. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Additions and corrections by trappers and hunters and Royal Canadian Mounted Police...
Chart of the Yukon River, from its mouth to above Fort Reliance. Includes key and explanatory notes on navigation and history. One map on 63 sheets, both sides. (126 segments, including title sheet with notes and section map on verso; 62 sheets...
Full note reads: "1949 03 Malamute Dog sled on Kobuk River up river from Shungnak, AK. This was taken one bend up the river as the trail came back down to the river. About 1 mile from the village."
The Robert L. Brown Photographs (262 images) document construction of the Tanana River Bridge in Nenana, Alaska, during the summer of 1967, and flooding of the Nenana and Tanana Rivers in August 1967.
Title taken from caption. "11555 -- (6) Judging from his suit and hood of fur and his team of dogs, we might mistake the boy in this picture for an Esquimau.
In 1898, at the time of the great rush for gold, he was the only white boy on...
Title taken from caption. "11561 -- (7) Here are a couple of prospectors playing hide-and-seek in the midst of massive blocks of ice which have been left upon the banks of the Allenkaket River by the receding waters. The blocks exceed in...
Title taken from caption. Other caption reads: "Guy F. Cameron". A view of the Chitina River where it meets the Copper River. The top of a fir tree is visible in the center foreground.