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...
Title taken from map. Map of Canadian Pacific Railway Company's steamship routes between Seattle and Skagway on the pacific northwest coast and between Vancouver and Asia. Principal Alaskan ports named are Mary Island, Ketchikan, Wrangell,...
This series of menus was used by the Alaska Steamship Company for a cruise up the Inside Passage. This one shows a two-color print of tourists on the streets of an Alaskan village, probably Sitka, beneath the mountains and a Russian church. They...
Congress was almost totally ignorant of Alaska, many suspected that the purchase was a bad bargain, and the only interest revolved around fur sealing. Therefore, many Congressmen were reluctant to pass Alaska legislation. Aside from the purchase,...