Title taken from accompanying notes. "Seward Highway bridges over Twenty-mile creek, Portage Ak., following the Alaska Earthquake and tidal wave 3/30/64 (Aerial Photo)". View of the collapsed automobile bridge lying on river ice. The railroad...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway bridges across Talkeetna River, near Talkeetna, Alaska. From front: "A.E.C. G103." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G103. 1916. Photographer: P.S....
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 front. View of two Alaska Engineering Commission Railway bridges with men standing on bridge in foreground, Seward Division, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Also from front: "G A.E.C. 1073." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway bridges over creek, Seward Division, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Also from front: "G. A.E.C. 1075." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G1075. Oct. 19,...
Title taken from front. View of south end openings of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway tunnels during construction, Southcentral Alaska, with bridges at right and at left. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1483." An Alaska Engineering Commission...
Title taken from front. View of two Alaska Engineering Commission Railway bridges, one old and one newly constructed, over Placer River, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, with glacier in background. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1625." An Alaska Engineering...
Title taken from verso. View of train making its way along Alaska Railroad tracks at "the Loop" at mile 47 and mile 48, near Seward, Alaska, with bridges in foreground and background. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. 1920-1929. Original...
Title taken from front. View of United States Telegraph Station and Klutina River Bridges, Copper Center, Alaska. Photo is property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Photographer's number G750. n.d. Photographer: P.S. Hunt.
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
(6:50 min.) (10 of 27) Right-of-way issues
Standards of alignment, grade & bridges. Some were location dependent. Engineers' suggestions and approval process, no requirement for acquiring right-of-way. People always wanted roads to their...
Title taken from caption. "A view taken at Mile 14 on the Alaska Northern Railroad. The Alaska Northern Railroad, extending from Seward to Kern Creek, a distance of 71 miles, was purchased by the Government in August, 1915. No repairs had...
Title taken from caption. "Hyland river bridge 322 mi W. of Nelson." Cataloguer's note: Some of the bridges along the Alaska Highway were built by advanced team of engineers who were usually flown in by float planes. Seasonal weather it seems...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Damaged Turnagain area Anchorage Ak., following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64". A house and a car are tipping on the settled ground. Broken pieces of a wooden fence are laid across the gaps in the earth...
Title taken from caption; clarified by cataloger.
Photogarph of the WAMCATS bridge at mile 88 after a forest fire burned the area. Hand written note on this photo reads: Note: These bridges were necessary acct 'spongs' sloughs or sluggish...
Title taken from caption. View of the old and new bridges over Ahtell Creek on the Glenn Highway in Southcentral Alaska. Photograph taken Aug. 31, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Title taken from container list. View of railroad tracks and bridges in Seward, Alaska damaged by the March 27, 1964 earthquake. A building, plus a trailer, appear in the lower left.