From verso: The Yukon riverboats, specially developed for use in central Alaska, are an indispensable mode of transportation, employed in tactical missions, supply work, and other tasks Signal Corps Photo 595641
Three riverboats appear to have been lashed together. Oarsmen are on each end of the boat. Presumably the boats are taken downriver by the current and the oarsmen are able to steer the assemblage of boats so as to...
Title taken from front. View of riverboats "Gen. J.W. Jacobs" and "Gen. Jeff C. Davis" put up for winter at Nenana, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G2050." Signs on ships read: "Q.M.C. [Quartermaster Corps] U.S.A." An Alaska Engineering Commission...
Title taken from verso. View of riverboats "Sarah" and "Susie," one docked and one wrecked on beach, possibly in Nome or Saint Michael, Alaska. Photographer's number 8255. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from label on matting. View of Alaska Railroad bridge across Tanana River at Nenana, Alaska, with riverboats in background. Also from label: "(Temp. 142)." Photographer's number 8178. Sept. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original...
Busy waterfront scene with riverboats FOX, TANANA, and one other, along waterfront; sign on warehouse reads, "Str. TANANA leaves 1 PM today, June 3, connecting with SCHWATKA for Dawson direct"