Shows railroads, water routes, highways and trails in Alaska with rail route from Seward through Fairbanks to Valdez and Cordova in red. Selective relief shown by hachures. Includes itinerary. Printed by Engineer Reproduction Plant, U.S. Army,...
Title from caption in album. Also from caption: "65A.Chit.Dist-Gakona River & Roadhouse, Copper River in distance." A settlement on the Glenn Highway Tok Cutoff road, formerly on the Gulkana-Chisana route. There are buildings and homes, a...
Title from front. Photographer George Gordon Cantwell, left, and his business partner Frederic N. Atwood sitting in front of a tent at their camp on the Yukon River. Cantwell is smoking a pipe and scrubbing a pan. From verso: "En route to Klondike...
Title taken from caption. View of cannery from aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route from Seattle to Alaska. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands. Identified...
Title taken from caption. "Aboard Bark 'C. B. Kenney' en route to Cook's Inlet, March 1892." Caption in album reads: "35 mm neg. 75-748". 5 x 8 cyanotype (blue) print.
Location unknown, box labeled King Salmon, Resolution Island, Frobisher Bay and slide mount dated May 1959, unlikely to be any of those locations. Image may have been taken en route to one. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Leland...
Title taken from text. After part of a before and after photograph with the caption: Before and after cutting right-of-way at 69. Necessary to abandon old route to the right account encroachment of Tanana river and put line to left on a very...
103 second, black & white/sound film clip. From title frame: "Dec. 22, 1944 / National Archives Collection". Film shows aspects of the lend-lease act, including road construction, Russian, American, and Canadian military personnel, and...
Description: Photograph shows Al Parmenter, standing on the side of an airplane, about to board. Albert Parmenter came to Alaska in the mid-1930s and mostly flew the Valdez to Fairbanks route. Parmenter left Alaska to work for Lockheed Aircraft....
Title from accompanying notes. "Al Randall and Japanese climbers at Camp 1 after Al and I had scouted beyond Camp 1. Bright red colored flags are wands used to mark the route so that it can be followed (even in poor weather)." Six men in...
Relief shown by contours. Insets: Turnagain Arm from Knik Arm via Glacier and Yukla Creeks -- Across Kenai Peninsula from Resurrection Bay to Turnagain Arm. "Dates refer to camps." Map 6 from Report, Public Resolution No. 25, 55th Congress, 3d...
Selective relief shown by hachures. Inset: North America showing location of Alaska in relationship to the United States. Ancillary maps: Alaska Steamship Company's map of Southeastern Alaska Route, the Alaska Excursion Route -- [Southcentral and...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Insets: Route oue saivra l'expedition du "Temps" par le Chilkoot -- Trace du district du Klondike releve en Octobre, 1897 -- Minimum and maximum temperatures for Klondike, 1896.
Title taken from caption. Alan May aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Shoshone en route from Unalaska to Seattle. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Passengers and crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route from Seattle to Alaska. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.