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.
Title taken from interview notes. Interview notes: One car of car of coho salmon contained 7,000 salmon, of reds or sockeye - 10,000 salmon. They often brought in 3-6 cars.
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Gold seekers in camp, preparing for the overland journey to the far away Yukon, 1898."
Title from image. Verso: First landing of St. "Queen" at Skagway in Klondike Stampede of 1897 (given to C.L. Andrews by J.A. Armunt[?] of Portland, OR) afterward apptd [appointed?] Dep. Coll Customs at Wrangell, by J.W. Ivey, Coll. of Cust.
American and Canadian troops had by-passed the island of Kiska as they pressed on to Attu Island where the decisive action of the war in the Aleutians took place. Returning to take Kiska after the Battle of Attu they found that the Japanese forces...