Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Title from caption. A building is labeled "Alaska Road Commission". Next to it, a sign above the road reads: "Steese Highway; Fairbanks - Circle - Military Highway; Constructed and Maintained by the Alaska Road Commission".
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty...
From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, - That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the...
Title from image caption Six kayaks head for village on Sanak Island; houses and church are visible in shadow along shore; the Alaska Commercial Company maintained a fur trading station in Sanak
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Automobile on road beneath highway sign. Sign in image: Steese Highway; Fairbanks - Circle - Military Highway; Constructed and Maintained by the Alaska Road Commission.
Intersection with two road signs. Fences and buildings in background. Sign in image: Richardson Highway, Valdez - Chitina - Fairbanks Military Road Constructed and Maintained by the Alaska Road Commission.
Automobile beneath highway sign. Sign in image: Chitina-Fairbanks Military Highway; Constructed and Maintained by the Alaska Road Commission. Caption: Photographed by E.L. Fisher. Beginning of the Edgerton Cutoff of the Richardshon Highway...
PRIORITY NPG F NR 2375 PLAIN ALL HANDS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY MARINE CORPS AND COAST GUARD MAY TAKE SATISFACTION IN THE COICLUSION OF THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN AND PRIDE IN THE PART PLAYED BY THEM IN ACCOMPLISHING THAT RESULT X PARA X...
Title taken from text.
Photograph of new and old routes showing after widening the right-of-way. Caption reads: At 72 1/2. Looking down Tanana river. Old route - to the right - abandoned here for a straighter, easier built and maintained and...
Title taken from text.
Photograph of new and old routes showing before widening the right-of-way. Caption reads: At 72 1/2. Looking down Tanana river. Old route - to the right - abandoned here for a straighter, easier built and maintained...
Title from sleeve. Covered ramp climbs hill to cluster of communications towers maintained by the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Administration. 4 X 5 B&W negative.
The H. C. Barley Photographs consist of more than 200 images of Skagway and vicinity in Alaska as well as nearby parts of northwestern British Columbia and southern Yukon. Barley, the official photographer for the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad,...
The H. C. Barley Photographs consist of more than 200 images of Skagway and vicinity in Alaska as well as nearby parts of northwestern British Columbia and southern Yukon. Barley, the official photographer for the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad,...
The H. C. Barley Photographs consist of more than 200 images of Skagway and vicinity in Alaska as well as nearby parts of northwestern British Columbia and southern Yukon. Barley, the official photographer for the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad,...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a well maintained house with a mown lawn. The photo has no caption. It was taken of a house at the corner of 5th Ave. and Cowles St., Fairbanks.
(6:03 min) (15 of 27) Road building philosophy
Were the roads necessary? Roads were built to open up the country. Another philosophy pushed for more planning. Permanence of communities was always in question. People still needed...