Title taken from caption. "$1,250,000 clean up Miners & Merchants Bank, Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number: C 49." Cataloguers note: This photograph shows gold bars stacked high above ground.
ASL-MS004-2-3b-5
Item 5
(acc. # 10213)
Physical description: [68]p.
Interpretation by Lydia Black, 1975
The following are stitched together as one booklet.
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.
Title taken from front. View of train wreck after snowslide at mile 49.3 of Alaska Railroad north of Seward, Alaska, on Kenai Peninsula, with trestle at left. Also from front: "A.E.C. G-1739." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's...
Photographer's number S.49. Salmon Creek Dam; designed by Lars Jorgensen, chief engineer Harry L. Wallenerg, was the first true constant-angle arch dam. It is 168 feet high and 648 feet across. Completed in 1914. Alaska Electric Light and...
Title from image. Photographer's number C.49. Alaska Electric Light and Power Company (AEL&P), Juneau, acquired the Alaska - Juneau Gold Mining Company properties, including their photographs of the mining operation, construction of Salmon...
Title taken from front. Colonel Frederick Mears, chairman of Alaska Engineering Commission, and civil engineer F.A. Hansen wearing snowshoes while inspecting railroad work at mile 49 after snowslide knocked train off railroad tracks north of...