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.
Shows Greenland, Iceland and a portion of St. James Island. Relief shown pictorially. From A.F. Prevost's Histoire generale des voyages. "Voyages 4° Tom. XIX pag. 1ere. Voyages in 12 Tom. LXXIII pag. 1ere. Tome 18 in 8°, page 105."
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.
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.
The twenty-three page album includes 105 black and white prints and a packet of scraps of paper with Japanese writing on them. Subjects of the photographs include Attu Island scenes including tug boats, cargo ships, steamships and docks, Holtz Bay...
Title from caption on Album. "A large river steamer which plied between St. Michael & Tanana". Caption also reads: "# 105 Caggan [Coggan]". [The boat is labelled "Sarah".]
Title from caption. Photograph shows view of tents at railroad construction camp at mile 462 Fairbanks District, Alaska. Caption also reads: "No. 105, A. J. Johnson, Official Photographer A.E.C."
Title from verso. Photograph of a .105-mm artillery piece and a crew serving it. Verso reads: "This 105-mm gun and its crew poured more than 2000 rounds of shells into Jap [ Japanese ] positions in the course of four days battling at...