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Bids to build from Yukon River north were too high so Juneau said go ahead and finish it. The crew got more equipment and people and fuel. The temperature dropped to -70 degrees. Juneau kept asking --...
"Native girs at Waynewright. It's just like a 'teeter-totter' only they stand up." The home and barn visible in the photograph looks remarkably like a farmhouse.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Looking across the street at the broken rear wall of the Anchorage, Alaska federal jail. From verso: "Federal jail built when Anchorage first began. It's so decrepit some prisoners kicked the side of the wall out just to show it could be done."...
Manuscript map, in ink, with place names in the Inupiaq language. Place names are generic, e.g., "Big Bay," and exact identification of location has not been possible; however, the coast as it appears on the map is suggestive of the irregular...
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Photo caption reads "Carpenter Ez Rupe and Robin Montgomery looking over plans for superintendent's house." View of two men looking over the blueprints of for the new superintendent's house at it's construction site near the Independencs Mine.
Relief shown by hachures. Shows Alaska prior to the Gold Rush with part of eastern Siberia and the Northwest Territory. Page 27 from atlas. On verso (pg. 28): map of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. This map is identical to copy 1, even print...
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.