Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Left to right Mrs. F. W. Herms (Emily), Dr. F. W. Herms Sr. and an unidentified man. They are standing in the Assay Office of the American Bank of Alaska (Iditarod, Alaska) in front of $125,000.00 of gold bricks.
View of gold miners and dogs loaded with packs filled with gold preparing to depart from Chistochina, Alaska. From verso: "Taken at Chistochina Mutt [?] station. Notice the jacks on the men and dogs. The horses carry the bedding and carry outfit....
Title taken from caption. " T. V. Smith's catch, Middleton Island, Alaska, 71 blue fox skins, value about $2,000.00. Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. G3592. Reproduced from glass plate.
Title taken from caption. "$750.000.00 in Gold dust ready for transportation over the Fairbanks-Valdez trail." Business signs visible include "Telephone Office", "Fairbanks Banking", and "The First [National Bank]".
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Title excerpted from verso. From verso: "The first overland mail leaving Anchorage, Alaska for Seward, Alaska and the States. November 28th. 1916. Gold dust and money shipments in this dispatch valued at over $88,000.00. Time of leaving, 10 A.M. -...
Title taken from front. View of dog team pulling gold bullion from the Iditarod mining area, as spectators line the street. Businesses in background include the Riverside Cafe. 1917. Photographer: Sydney Laurence. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. Row of Caterpillar bulldozers at Galbraith Lake pipeline construction camp during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Brooks Range, Alaska. 1975? Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
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,...
Dogteam lined up in front of wooden buildings. A number of people look on. Eli Smith, an Alaska mail carrier, mushed his dog team 8,000 miles from Nome to Washington, D.C. in 1907, winning a $10,000.00 wager on this feat.
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.