Title taken from verso. View of Muncho Lake Lodge in Muncho Lake, British Columbia, Canada along Alaska Highway, with bus, cars, and truck parked outside. Two cars have spare tires tied to roof racks. 1948? Original photograph size: 5 3/4" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from verso. View of Alaska Highway north of Haines Junction, Yukon Territory, Canada, with black spruce on either side of road. 1948? Original photograph size: 5 3/4" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from verso. View of buildings at Haines Junction, along Alaska Highway in Yukon Territory. 1948? Original photograph size: 5 3/4" x 3 1/2".
Winter shot of William Herbert Newlove, part of the construction crew on the Alaska Highway. He is wearing a hat, mittens and a scarf and leaning against a military truck. Verso: "I have about all the clothes I own on in this picture. Northway...
From caption: "Late in September, 1942, this truck was driven up the Alcan from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse - the first truck to make the entire trip." From verso: "Approved for release, U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska, Corps of Engineers, P.O....
Photograph of the color guard at the completion of the Alaska Highway. Probably during ribbon-cutting ceremony held on Soldiers Summit on November 20, 1942.
Looking across the Liard River in Canada at the partially completed bridge, part of the Alaska Highway construction project. A construction worker is visible in the foreground. Verso: "Liard Bridge. River 525 feet wide." Original photograph size: 2...
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...
Title from postcard caption Full caption: "An advance survey party on the Alaska Highway built through Canada’s wilderness by a welcome invasion army of U.S. soldiers"
Title taken from caption. View of a gas station and milepost located at the intersection of the Alaska Highway and the Glenn Highway in Tok, Alaska. Sign reads: "Whitehorse 401. Valdez [?]. Fairbanks 207. Anchorage [?]. Big Delta 110. Boundary 57."...
Diary kept by Harold Pomeroy in 1949 during his preparations for and first year of homesteading at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula. 315 pages. In the diary, Harold documents lists of supplies gathered for homesteading, his drive...