(6:26 min.) (13 of 20) Train/ship and labor issues--train/ship needed to cut cost--merchants advertised in Anchorage based on what was in the shipment--guaranteed delivery dates (kinda)--railbelt--Anchorage origins--Distribution problems for...
(6:26 min.) (15 of 24) 15 Deck Steward Deck steward arranged entertainment and kept the passengers happy with games. Wealthy lady from San Franciso had John Sewick fired. Dart's of Seattle stored the cars of passengers. John Sewick was...
Title taken from front. View of railroad cars on tracks and construction workers at left of tracks during railroad construction in Interior Alaska. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 81. July 26, 1919. Original photograph...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission railroad tracks at mile 456 during construction in Interior Alaska, with piles of lumber at left. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 87. July 26, 1919....
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission railroad looking north at mile 455 in Interior Alaska. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. July 26, 1919. Original photograph size: 4 1/4" x 6 1/2".
Title taken from front. View of steam shovel and other construction equipment during railroad construction in Interior Alaska. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 82. July 26, 1919. Original photograph size: 6 1/2" x 8...
Title taken from front. View of railroad cars at end of tracks during construction at mile 452 in Interior Alaska, with tent in left background. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 85. July 26, 1919. Original photograph...
Title and description taken from verso. These people were all participants in a large potlatch that was held in Sitka in December of 1904. They are wearing a variety of ceremonial clothing for the occasion, including: hats trimmed with beads,...
Title taken from caption. View of a graveyard near a Bristol Bay cannery. Cross on left reads: "RIP ? Arnold Natural de Italia. Murio el dia 6 de Junio de 1932 edad 54 anos". Middle cross reads: "RIP Candido Palafos Natural de Mexico. Murio el dia...
Title taken from caption. Crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa take a lunch break on a fishing trip to Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "At Mile 18 [on Lake Kenai] we went in three different parties in a motor boat...
Title taken from caption. Crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa walk down a road near Ptarmigan Creek, a tributary of Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "There is a highway here [Ptarmigan Creek] which I am told goes...
Title by cataloguer. Names were furnished by Hilda Stevens. Front row (l. to r.): 1. Liza Luke; 2. Old Moses; 3. Rachel Jacobs; 4. Selina Pitka; 5. Katherine Peter; 6. Esther Peterson; 7. Old Stephen; 8....
Title from caption in album: "Dec 19 - Continuation of range East of McKinley - Next valley East of McKinley fork where two moose were killed. < br>Photograph shows a snowy landscape and a couple of snowy mountains.
Title from caption in album: "Dec 19 - Large Bull moose wounded - Horns shed - Ears laid flat in rage and threatening to charge". Photograph shows a large moose standing amongst bushes.