Photograph shows two railroad employees, one in uniform, standing on the boards of an Alaska Railroad motor car that is parked on the railway track. Several other men, possibly railroad construction workers, are visible to the right of the...
Image of expedition members alongside a car fitted to run along railroad tracks. Near Yakutat. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
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.