Title from verso. Verso: A study group visiting the Rampart Canyon site of a proposed hydroelectric development project on the Yukon River are shown at Texas Creek Bridge. Across the stream is the camp set up by Army Engineers this winter as a...
Title taken from caption. " Alaska Road Commission on Valdez Dike, Col. W. P. Richardson, Pres. Lieut. L. A. Kunzig, and Lieut. L. E. Edgerton. " Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. G4133. Reproduced from a glass plate.
Descriptive Narrative: Playing cards (all original 52) and leather case. White Pass & Yukon Route. Different scenes.
History: Gift of Caryl Sale Krug and John W. Krug, 1998. Collected by William W. Sale and Neeta Tobey Sale, residents of Nome,...
(7:03 min.) (06 of 27) Alaska Road Commission II
Commission members lived in Alaska, but had to get funding from Congress. Later got funding from the Departments of Commerce and Interior. Head of the commission was Richardson, a personable...
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.
Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. "Drawn by G. Noetzel. Engraved by W.P. Sefton and J.A. Waddey." "Issued with H.O. Chart No. 68 as a supplement." "No. 1189." "Printed July, 1890." Annotated.
Title from caption. Photograph of a trestle bridge on the White Pass and Yukon Railroad known as The Steel Cantilever Bridge. Narrative in photo album reads: "One of the highest railroad trestles in the world on the Y. & W. P. R. R. Taken...
Title from caption. Photograph of Mrs. Rivenburg and two of her friends on the back of a W.P. & Y.R.R. car. The sign on the back of the car reads 'White Pass and Yukon Route' around the edge and 'Gateway to the Yukon' in center. Narrative in...
Title from caption. Photograph of a scow shooting Miles Canyon near Whitehorse, YT. Caption reads: "Shooting Miles Canyon on scow, the waters of this Box Canyon run very swift and many early stampeders lost their lives [on] it decending in...
Title from caption. Photograph of Passengers disembarking from a steamship and walking down Moore's Wharf. Caption reads: "Skaguay Bay & town shewing the three wharfs constructed to the left of our dock near bluff at right. These three...
Title from caption. Photograph of Moore's Wharf with ships tied along it; livestock in pens and bales of hay can be seen at the far right. Caption reads: "Moore's Wharf before it was extended & completed, during these years from the period...
Title from caption. Photograph of Moore's Wharf showing five steamships. An advertisement for Moore's Wharf Co. is attached. Caption reads: "Moore's Wharf Skaguay Alaska 4 years after completion. July 4th 1904 date of this photo. No. 1....
United States atlas: maps and charts accompanying the case and counter case of the United States, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
Title taken from caption. Professor W.P. Anderson on board 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.
These are possibly Senator W. P. Dillingham, of Vermont, Senator H. E. Burnham, of New Hampshire, Senator Knut Nelson of Minnesota and Senator E. [T] M. Patterson of Colorado. Also included in that party were Sergeant at Arms of the Senate; Col....
These are possibly Senator W. P. Dillingham, of Vermont, Senator H. E. Burnham, of New Hampshire, Senator Knut Nelson of Minnesota and Senator E. M. Patterson of Colorado. Also included in that party were Sergeant at Arms of the Senate; Col....