(4:43 min.) (08 of 27) Start of contracting
First job was building the bridge between Illinois St. and College Road over Noyes Slough. Lots of paperwork, everything was an emergency since there was no experience with how to do the simplest...
Before photograph showing an old burn area near Pile Driver Slough, prior to clearing for the Washington Alaska Military Communication and Telegraph System (WAMCATS).
Bridge over a slough near Tanana Crossing (Tanacross), Alaska, built to ease transport between the mission of Saint Timothy's and the Village of Tanana Crossing, Alaska
Broad view from water, the slough between Resichl Way and Fritz Cove Road; wooden buildings on shore and small boat anchored out front; buildings may have been part of fox farming operation
Building a bridge over the slough, to ease burden of missionaries. The village is eight miles from the mission of St. Timothy's at Tanana Crossing (Tanacross), Alaska.
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.
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left and below are two of Mr. Shultz's pictures of the same canoe shown on the opposite page. "Mrs. Albert, Mrs. Luke and Mrs. Jennie Pitka working on a canoe in a little dry slough just back of the...