Title from caption: "Alabama Horse Scow Navigation Co. on the Iditarod River." Written on the verso, "This picture shows the mode of getting freight up the small streams. No wonder that flour costs $15 a sack, spuds 20 cts. [cents] a lb. [pound],...
Title from caption: "Alabama Horse Scow Navigation Co. on the Iditarod River." Photo shows two scows in the river filled with freight. The scow in front is covered with tarps, and two men are on each one. Another man is on the riverbank,...
View of six stern wheelers at Northern Navigation Company docks, Dawson, Yukon Territory. Sign on boat at right reads: "Bailey." From verso: "'Sarah' and 'W. H. Isom' with barges at Nor[thern] Nav[igation] Co[mpany] dock, Dawson, Y[ukon]...
Title taken from caption: "Coast Guard tending solar powered navigation light. Southeast Alaska." View of U.S. Coast Guardsman working on a navigational light.
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska...
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...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...
Relief shown by hachures. February 1899. Includes table of distances from Skagway. "For full information apply to S.H. Graves, President, Chicago, Illinois; E.C. Hawkins, Chief Eng. & Gen. Supt., Seattle, Wash'n.; L.H. Gray, Gen'l. Traffic...
Postcard postmarked from Kokrines on Nov. 14, 1911 and addressed to Mrs. Alice Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. Written on the verso is, "Dear Mother, your long looked for and very welcome letter of Sept....
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission boat "B&B No. 2" taking on pack horses for Commission officials during railroad inspection trip on Susitna River at Talkeetna, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. H93." An Alaska...
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"