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.
Title taken from caption. View of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Ingham while docked. Location is likely Valdez. Location is not noted with photo but several others in colection are labeled from Valdez. "U.S.C.G. Cutter Ingham" and "Dow 120"...
Title from taken caption. View of a group of soldiers during U.S. Army mountain and glacier training in Alaska. One of the soldiers is crossing a river on a rope, while the rest stand and watch. From verso: "One rope bridge for crossing river....
Title from taken caption. View of three soldiers during U.S. Army mountain and glacier training in Alaska. One of the soldiers is keeping the rope taunt while another repels down the cliff with the third man on his back. From verso: "Keeping the...
Elliot, Henry Wood (artist). Size: 12 x 18 in. Medium: Watercolor on paper Artist's name incorrectly noted by framer as "Wm. Elliot," Verso, signed lower left, 1872, April 30
Title taken from caption. View of the Bunker Building in Whittier, Alaska. From verso: "From: US Army Engineer District, Alaska, PO Box 7002, Anchorage, Alaska. Phone: Anchorage BRoadway 6-6091 or Elmendorf 754-4182. For Lease -- The Army Port of...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: The Steamer "Queen" frequently ran north to and from Alaska and the Northwest. John Muir, who would later become a member of the 1899 Harriman Alaska (scientific) expedition, noted boarding the...
Image shows time-lapsed photograph of the progress of the sun on the shortest day of the year, December 21st, in Nome, Alaska. Sunrise noted as 10:25am, and sunset at 1:35pm, though no year noted.
Title taken from caption. View of Russ Dow on the left and Leona and Sam Houston on the right. Russell Dow is a noted Alaskan photographer. Sam Houston was a park ranger in McKinley Park. Photo taken in Mount McKinley National Park (later called...
Title taken from caption. "There are many ideal locations for camping along Alaska Northern Railway. There are numerous lakes which abound with fish, and the Kenai Peninsula, through which the railway runs, is noted for its wild game,...
Title taken from caption. "A homestead near Palmer, on the Matanuska Branch of the Government Railroad. The many sacks noted in the distance contain the harvested potato crop. The oats in the foreground have been partly cut. The farmers in...
Title taken from caption. View of trucks and trailers parked around the Sears Creek, Alaska pump station. From verso: "From: US Army Engineer District, Alaska, PO Box 7002, Anchorage, Alaska. Phone: Anchorage BRoadway 6-6091 or Elmendorf 754-4182....
Title taken from caption. View of family having breakfast at pipeline camp near Delta Junction, Alaska. From verso: "From: US Army Engineer District, Alaska, PO Box 7002, Anchorage, Alaska. Phone: Anchorage BRoadway 6-6091 or Elmendorf 754-4182....
Title taken from verso. View of Pioneer Peak, near Palmer, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." n.d. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" 2 1/2".
Jim Fox noted that this is not Pioneer Peak and...
Title taken from caption. View of a construction worker standing in a field of pilings that are interconnected with hoses and pipes in Alaska. From verso: "Publication of this photograph is not authorized unless approved for release by a Public...
Shows Hudsons Bay, Baffins Bay, the east coast of Canada including Newfoundland, Iceland, Arctic Europe and Arctic Asia. Shows Greenland as being attached to Canadian Arctic, and includes "Bas" south of Iceland. Incomplete representation of...
Father and son Noel and Merrill Wien stand in front of Wien Air Alaska Cessna 185, possibly in Fairbanks, Alaska. From information with photo: "Noel Wien, noted for his contributions to Alaska's aviation history over the past years, stands with his...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- 'X' Marks the spot -- Anchorage's Mt. McKinley building [later known as the McKay Building] shows the common 'X' shaped cracks that marred many Alaskan buildings,...
Title taken from caption. View of Mrs. Gene Nunley sweeping off the steps of her family's trailer near Delta Junction, Alaska. From verso: "Mrs. Gene Nunley sweeps off her trailer home porch at Timber Pipeline Station. Publication of this...