53 black and white photographs document project to construct a "ditch' of pipeline and flume to transport water to the gold fields; first images show horse teams pulling loaded sleds across frozen Tagish Lake; last images show construction of large...
Album of 53 photographs from the Swain family's 12-day trip to Alaska aboard the S. S. ALASKA. Beginning at Pier 42 in Seattle, the images show highlights of travel through the Inside Passage to Seward and then to Anchorage by train. Shore...
Captain Lockert collected photographs and papers during the years he served the Alaska Marine Highway System, continuing his interest in Alaska maritime affairs until his death in 1990. The papers are mostly 12 scrapbooks from 1964-1978 and one box...
From 1932 until 1941, when she was transferred to the Coast Guard, the NORTH STAR, sturdy service vessel of Office of Indian Affairs, sailed from Seattle to points north, making 50 stops on the outbound journey to Barrow and also stopping in St....
Governor Swineford collected the photographs during the 1887 voyage he and his wife, Minnie Swineford, took aboard the Thetis. Included are views of the Thetis and its crew,Alaska Natives from various regions of the State of Alaska, seal...
Summary: Many of the photos were taken by Baldwin while he worked as a surveyor for the U.S. government on the Alaska-Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1907 to 1913. Also included are images of...
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
These two volumes illustrate an 1897 expedition up the Taku River by members of the Yukon Mining, Trading and Transport Company in the summer of 1897. The expedition was led by P.I. Packard who proposed to build a railroad to Dawson via the Taku...