70 second, color/silent, film clip. Clip shows the loading and off-loading of supplies from a barge to the riverboat Whitehorse. Mail is also delivered.
Description on verso: "One of the cabins on the mail route, and also used by hunters, between Dawson and Forty Mile --Note baggage and deer on the sled. Fred [is] with dog team"
From image captions: E. B. O’Connor with two men and 17 dogs, hauling Capt. Sundback from Pilgrim Hot Springs Post Office to railroad, a distance of 7 miles, which took 5 hours to negotiate, over mail trail with Duffy’s mail team
Fur trader Ed Shepherd (left background) and Nathan Noongwook (right background) stand next to sled holding Adventurers Club of New York flag, as last U.S. mail run via dogsled in Alaska prepares to go from Gambell to Savoonga on Saint Lawrence...
Jim Felton, postmaster, and Mr. Lawrence, partner in store, standing outside building in Palmer (previously called Warton), Alaska. Sign on building reads: "Warton Post Office and general store." From verso: "May 1935. Jim Felton. Postmaster to the...
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Shows sea and land mail routes with notes on frequency of service. Includes legend and list of post offices. Selective relief shown by hachures. Insets: Map of the Tanana district -- Aleutian Islands -- South-eastern part of Alaska (enlarged). ...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.