Title from verso. Photograph of Selawik inhabitants floating home on a raft of logs with their tent set up for the trip. Verso reads: "[In?] the [spring?] before the ice and snow is gone the people from Selawik go up the river with their...
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 verso. Man with horse and sled on raft following Valdez-Fairbanks Trail through a river, near Valdez, Alaska. Photographer: J. N. Randall. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 3/8" x 5 3/8".
Color print of Ted Pedersen, manning an oar of the WHITE WHALE, a New Bedford whaleboat, built in Seattle in 1980 and sailed to Bear Cove, Alaska, by Pedersen; the boat was willed to the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska.
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Yukoners on the trail, 1898, whipsawing lumber to make rafts, scows, and other manner of water craft in which to reach the golden land of their hopes."
Title from verso notes Riverfront view, with log rafts in foreground, and steamboats and commercial businesses in background; clearly visible is the sign for the Northern Commercial Co.