Title taken from caption. View of construction of the roadway and a bridge along the Steese Highway. The bridge is probably crossing Birch Creek near Circle City. Circa 1928-1929.
Title taken from caption. View of railway clearance cut in deep snow on the Alaska Railroad system. The tracks lead to a tunnel in the distance. Location unknown, likely Interior or Southcentral Alaska.
View of the two-story railroad station at Fairbanks, Alaska. Other buildings are visible in the background. The railroad tracks are visible in the foreground.
Winter scene of tents, men, and construction equipment and supplies forming a construction camp along the Steese Highway. From caption: "A road Camp Steese highway."
Title taken from verso. Notes attached to the photo read, "Back, Fred Beeler, John Boswell, Wilson W. Walton, Gene Brice, Don Mueller, Robert Mize, ---, Saddie Pratt, ---, Charlie McMahan, Leslie Chester; Next to Back, Elizabeth Grigsby,...
Title from monument text. "Carl Benjamin Eielson enlisted in the Air Service of the United States Army on January 17, 1917. In 1923 he piloted the first airplane in Alaska and in 1924 he flew the first government mail plane in that territory. He...
Portrait of Herbert Lawrence holding a Signal Corps trophy for winning a dogsled race in Fairbanks, Alaska, March 1929. Judge Cecil H. Clegg is in the background with his hand on the sled. From caption: "Herbert Lawrence (half breed) driver of...
Title taken from caption. Two men and one unidentified woman in front of the smokehouse at Russian Mission. From verso: "Outside smoke-house at Russian Mission. Charlie Jacobson - mail carrier from Russian M. to Bethel (wearing sunshade). Chris...
Title taken from caption. View of grave markers and graves in the Russian Orthodox churchyard at Russian Mission, Alaska. From verso: "Russian church graveyard at Russian Mission. Picture taken from belfry of church. June 27, 1928."
Title taken from caption. Portrait of Mrs. Van Curler standing in a cleared field in her farm. From verso: "Mrs. Van Curler. Came to Alaska in 1898 and has never been back to the States. She and her husband have farm on Chena [River] 90 mi from...
Portrait of Henry Hansen partially seated on a wood structure behind a log cabin. From verso: "Henry Hansen, Eskimo. The mail carrier's assistant. Kuskokwim Portage. July 2, 1928."
Title taken from verso. View of three men standing in front of an old log cabin. Tom and George are possibly Tom Strobie and George Moore. From caption: "Shelter Cabin at 'Nine Mile' John, George, Tom."
The building of the bridge on the Steese Highway spanning Birch Creek. A few workers are visible on the structure of the bridge. From verso: "Span 1 being erected. Birch Creek Bridge Alaska. August - Sept 1928."
Photograph of two Alaska Road Commission employees, seated and with their feet on the desk, in the Fairbanks office in February 1929. One is smoking a pipe. From caption: "'At work' during a rush hour."
Title taken from caption. A view across the Chena River toward Fairbanks, Alaska. A bridge is to the left of the photograph, a man is standing on the stairs leading down from the bridge into floodwaters. The Northern Commercial Company buildings...