Title taken from verso. Crowd gathered at Alaska Railroad depot, Anchorage, Alaska, for inauguration of first streamliner rail service. Also from verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." Oct. 18, 1947. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from front. View of Skagway, Alaska, looking north along Broadway, with White Pass and Yukon Railroad running through. Businesses shown include E. H. Richter Jewelry and Curios, Canadian National, Skagway Drugs, and Alaska Steamship Co....
Inside view, looking seaward, of covered, Japanese submarine beaching railway, tracks leading to waterfront; a soldier passes large submarine handling cradles on left; warships are visible through opening
Walter L Fisher was the Secretary of the Interior from 1911 to 1913, under President Taft. In 1911 he visited Alaska as part of the process of determining the future route of the Alaska Railroad. He was accompanied by his son Walter T. Fisher, who...
Trains dominate the foreground; steam billows from two engines as they move along the tracks; in the background is Skagway, harbor, and mountains Photographer's number 820