Group photo of Peter L. Ferry family standing in front of Alaska Railroad locomotive number 1 in Fairbanks, Alaska. From verso: "Aug. 1929. Ferry family, Fairbanks, Alaska - First train in Alaska. James, Catherine, Frank Diener with Patrick,...
Title taken from verso. View of Peter L. Ferry family members at celebration of founding of Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada, with vehicles full of people in background. Family members, left to right: Peter L. Ferry, Catherine Ferry, Catherine B....
Title taken from verso. Peter L. Ferry family members stand in front of log building at Fort Yukon, Alaska, with unidentified woman and boy at right. From left to right: Bill Ferry, Peter L. Ferry with Patrick Ferry, Catherine Ferry, Catherine B....
Title taken from verso. View of Peter L. Ferry family members at Lake Bennett, British Columbia, Canada, with church in background. Also from verso: "1929 ... Leo, Frank, Catherine, Jack, Baby Pat, Mo (Catherine B), Mary Alice, Bill, & Jim." 1929....
Title taken from verso. View of members of Peter L. Ferry family standing in front of restaurant at Lake Bennett, British Columbia, Canada. From left to right: Catherine Ferry, Mary Alice Ferry Diener, Peter L. Ferry, Bill Ferry, and Jim Ferry....
Title taken from verso. View of Peter L. Ferry family members standing on boardwalk in Ketchikan, Alaska, with buildings in background. Also from verso: "1929. Catherine Ferry, Catherine [B.] Ferry, Mary Alice Ferry Diener, Peter L. Ferry." Signs...
Title taken from verso. Group photo of Peter L. Ferry, Catherine B. Ferry, and Mary Alice Ferry Diener on ship in front of Taku Glacier in southeast Alaska. 1929. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 3/4".
Group photo of (left to right) Billie Ferry, Patsy Henderson, and Peter L. Ferry standing in front of building in Carcross, Yukon Territory, Canada. From front: "Carcross, Y.T., Aug. 22, 1929. P. Henderson, one of the first to find gold in the...
The Alaska ferry, Wickersham, was purchased by the State of Alaska from the Swedish Stena Line for $6,960,000.00 in April, 1968, having only been built and in service for 6 months. Originally named M.V. Stena Brittanica, the ferry left Gothenberg,...
"Hand operated steel cable ferry, constructed by O. & S. to span the 70 Mile River when the waters were too high for fording. It was located at a point called 'Nimrod Bar.' Nimrod worked for O. & S. at Crooked Creek, but had also worked his own...
Mary Alice Ferry Diener with man mistakenly identified as George Washington Carmack in Ketchikan, Alaska. George Washington Carmack died in 1922, seven years before picture was taken. From verso: "Aug. 16, 1929. Mary Alice with George Washington...
Captain Lockert collected photographs and papers during the years he served the Alaska Marine Highway System, continuing his interest in Alaska maritime affairs until his death in 1990. The papers are mostly 12 scrapbooks from 1964-1978 and one box...
View of Peter L. Ferry and Frank Diener standing with car under sign for Steese Highway in interior Alaska. Buildings stand in left background. Sign reads: "Steese Highway. Fairbanks - Circle - Military highway constructed and maintained by the...
Title taken from verso. View of car ferry and log boom. The boom is the basis for the construction of a bridge across Birch Creek at the Steese Highway.
View of a boy leaning over the railing aboard a car ferry crossing the Tanana River. A truck is on the ferry and the town of McCarty (later Big Delta) appears in the background. From verso: "Car ferry on Richardson Highway across the Tanana at...
51 second, black and white, silent film clip of the ferry M/V Kalakala (meaning "Flying Bird" in Chinook). Originally launched as the Peralta on October 14, 1926, in San Francisco, she burned to the waterline on May 6, 1933. The intact hull was...
Ferry across the Chena River with several children sitting nearby. Also seen are tents on near side of river and houses and cabins on far side. The ferry operators shack is near the lower left.
Title from caption in album. A ferry set up to cross the Tanana River at Big Delta (formerly called McCarty). There is a notice tacked on an upright pole, and several pulleys and lines. One man is inside the cab of the truck, two are standing on...
Title by cataloger. A young man is standing atop one side of the ferry. There are pulleys and cables, a steering wheel, and a spare boat attached to the ferry. The roadhouse is on the far river bank. Compare with UAF-2003-63-165.