From verso: "Military and civilian personnel of U. S. Engineers in Alaska at Headquarters of Alaska Defense Command, Fort Richardson, following award of the Distinguished Service medal to Col. B. B. Talley, Officer in Charge Alaska Construction,...
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.
(6:33 min.) (05 of 12) Building bases and prep for Attu 30,000 men working total--civilian contractors did lots of work--DeLong--General Tally--Cold Bay task force to retake Attu--General Buckner--Alaska scouts--12,000 men in first two...
Shows routes of Davis, Baffin, Franklin, McClure, Collinson, Kane, Second German Expedition, Peary, Amundsen, Ericsen, Rasmussen, De Quervain, Koch, MacMillan, Steffansson, Ekblaw, Hall, Nares, Nordenskjold, DeLong, Nansen, and Duke of Abruzzi. ...
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Men gathered at the Copper River and Northwestern Railway tracks on the Miles Glacier Bridge, otherwise known as the Million Dollar Bridge, over the Copper River, Alaska. From verso: "Million Dollar Bridge. Lenoir, DeLong, Whiltlesey, Jos. Romig,...