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,...
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...
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.
(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...
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.
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 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....
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.