The Eastern Arcade, linking the Balto building and Goode Hall of the Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska. Note the World War II camouflaging and the Mile "0" Iditarod Trail monument at right front. From verso: "Carrie Ida Pierce, Seward, Alaska, Box...
(3:08 min) (18 of 19) Put the gas car out of business Cost $0.25 a round trip in gas between the school and Fairbanks. Fall of 1932 he ordered a 32 passenger bus. Ran it as a bus in the winter and switched the chassis to a cargo vehicle for...
52 second, black & white/silent, film clip of people and airplanes at Merrill Field.
Greg Herrick provided the following information about the biplane with people standing in front (tail number NV 977Y) Acquired by Harold Gillam for use...
Title from accompanying notes "27 March. Milepost 0 on the Alcan; Hat, Hiro & Pete." Beginning of Alaska-Canada Highway at Dawson Creek. Three men stand under the milepost sign. Three flags are on the milepost, and roadside businesses and their...
Title from accompanying notes. Road mile marker reading: "Dawson Creek Mile "0" zero--Alaska (Alcan) Highway. At this spot in the spring of 1942, at the height of World War II the U.S. Army Engineers began the construction of the overland route...
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Title page in British atlas: maps and charts accompanying the Case of Great Britain, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Looking down the main street of Dawson Creek, British Columbia, at the Mile 0 marker that marks the start of the Alaska Highway (ALCAN). Sign on the marker reads "Mile 0 Alaska Hi-way". The Palace Hotel is visible on the left and cars are parked...
The photographs primarily relate to Valdez and the Copper River country during the period 1899-1905. Included are photographs of towns, buildings, camps, social events, mining, packing supplies and equipment, people, and scenery. Some photographs...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
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.
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.
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.