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.
(4:01 min) (01 of 17) Getting to Alaska
Graduated from college wandered around worked in fish industry hitch-hiked up Richardson Highway. Wells Alaska Motors, Aurora Motors, Employment office, Christian Science Reading Room, George...
(9:55 Min.) (01 of 09)
Barging on the river
barging; river history; summer -- Galena; hauling 140 ton loads; river trips; whole life on river; Holy Cross; freight; Nenana; Yukon; million gallon barge; Nenana; Fairbanks; Core of Engineers; Chena...
40 second film clip, color/silent, of statehood celebration activities. Anchorage Daily Times front page. Reading Daily News Miner. Newsboy selling papers. United States and Alaska flags hung from upper stories of building. Fire engine in a...
81 second film clip, black & white/silent, showing a thermometer reading 48 degrees below zero, and scenes of Fairbanks in winter. Scenes are from rooftops and elevated perspectives showing downtown's 1st and 2nd avenue, Cushman Street and the...
A man washes up while a women reads a book at their camp on Kenai Lake near Seward, Alaska. ca. 1910. Photographer: Elsie Blue. Original size of photograph: 6 1/4" x 4".
A view down a street in Girdwood facing west toward Turnagain arm and the Kenai Peninsula. A banner hangs across the road. The large white building to the right of the photograph is the Girdwood Hotel, with signs reading Hamm's Beer and Schlitz. ...
A view of the front of the Girdwood Hotel. From verso: "Prop[r]ietors Ayers and Whitney. Beverly Staser in picture. Gene's Restaurant on left, Gene `The Frenchman' was long dead by 1956." The commercial signs on the front of the hotel read (top to...