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A summer on the Thetis, 1888A summer on the Thetis, 1888ASL-P27
Official Photographic Album ~ Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. ~ Matanuska ColonizationOfficial Photographic Album ~ Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp. ~ Matanuska ColonizationColonistsASL-P270-ARRC-Album-Cover
A Souvenir of Alaska and a Tribute from his Friends to the Man M.J. Heney. W. P. & Y. Route. 1898-1900A Souvenir of Alaska and a Tribute from his Friends to the Man M.J. Heney. W. P. & Y. Route. 1898-1900Railroad construction & maintenance; EngineersPhysical descrip: 56 photographs : b&w ; 11 x 16 cm. and smaller + 15 hand-lettered, illustrated pages.

Medium: album 26 cm. leather

Summary: A commemorative album presented to Michael J. Heney. The photographs are by H.C. Barley, who was hired as the company photographer for the White Pass & Yukon Railway in 1898, the same year that Heney went to work on the railroad. The album contains photos of the White Pass & Yukon Route and the Copper River and Northwestern railroads, railroad employees, and railroad construction. Along with the photographs are pages of poetry, tributes to his work and signatures of the people who worked with and for him, all hand-lettered in red, blue, green and black ink.

Biographical note: Michael J. Heney was known as "Big Mike" to his railroad crews and the "Irish Prince" in the financial and social circles of Seattle, San Francisco, New York and London; to his friends he was simply "MJ." He ran away from his Pembroke, Ontario home at age 14 to work on the Canadian Pacific Railroad and learned to measure grades, blast cliffs, build tunnels and estimate costs. His natural talent to inspire working men established him as a rairoad contractor by age 21. He worked on railroads in the Northwest, permanently establishing himself in Seattle. He went to Alaska in 1897, where he worked the next twelve years and is credited with building the White Pass & Yukon Route and realizing the first hundred miles of the Copper River & Northwestern. Both railroads involved "insurmountable engineering and construction difficulties." He never married, died Oct. 11, 1910, of pulmonary tuberculosis at age 45 and left an estate of over one million dollars to relatives, associates, Catholic charities, and the Alaskan Indians in care of Episcopal Bishop Rowe. The mountains overlooking Cordova were named for him. [From: "Big Mike Heney, builder of the White Pass and Copper River Northwestern railroads," by Elizabeth Tower, 1990.]		ASL-P340-001
Children of Mr. Carter, trader at FORT YUKON.Children of Mr. Carter, trader at FORT YUKON.Children; GirlsTitle from caption.ASL-P240-050-fullpage
Album. Schieffelin Brothers Yukon River prospecting trip, 1882-1883.Album. Schieffelin Brothers Yukon River prospecting trip, 1882-1883.Prospecting; Expeditions & surveys; AlbumsMonograph. 45 black and white photographs.ASL-P277-017-Monograph
Asa Baldwin photograph collection documenting the Alaska Canada boundary survey from 1910 to 1913.Asa Baldwin photograph collection documenting the Alaska Canada boundary survey from 1910 to 1913.Boundary markers; Boundaries; AlbumsSummary: Many of the photos were taken by Baldwin while he worked as a surveyor for the U.S. government on the Alaska-Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1907 to 1913. Also included are images of the Yellow Band Gold Mine, the Bremner Mining Co. camp, Sheriff Mine, glaciers, Native Alaskans, and scenics. Other photographers represented in the collection include: F.H. Nowell, E.A. Hegg, E.C. Guerin, T.C. Dennis, and Curtis and Miller.

Biographical note: Asa Columbus Baldwin was born in Austinburg, Ohio, in 1887. He received a B.A. in Civil and Mining Engineering from Case University, Ohio, and a B.S. in law from George Washington University. He was married to Lillian Louise Smith from 1917 until her death in 1933. They had 3 children. In 1935 he married Marguerite Holliday. Asa Baldwin had an extensive career as a civil engineer, surveyor, consulting engineer, and lecturer. He assisted in the first U.S. government marine survey of Kodiak and the Aleutian Islands in 1909. From 1907 to 1913 as a surveyor for the U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey, he was assigned to the U.S.-Canada International Boundary Commission, Mount St. Elias to Arctic Ocean 141st Meridian Boundary Demarcation Survey. He was the president of Yellow Band Gold Mines, Inc. from 1936 until 1942 and consultant for the Boundary Commission, Kennicott Copper Co., Prince of Wales Mines, Alaska-Juneau Mine, the Alaska Railroad, Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Schlumberger Electrical Prospecting Methods of Paris, France. He died of a heart attack, September 18, 1942.		ASL-P71-Album
Jesse Lee Home. Photographs, 1939-1955.Jesse Lee Home. Photographs, 1939-1955.Orphanages; Schools; ChildrenPhysical description: 37 photographsSCL-7
The 1928 Alaska Tour by Governor George A. Parks, Major Malcolm Elliott, Mr. R.J. Sommers, Territorial Hwy Engineer.The 1928 Alaska Tour by Governor George A. Parks, Major Malcolm Elliott, Mr. R.J. Sommers, Territorial Hwy Engineer.Roads; Mining; Governors; AlbumsThe 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.ASL-P240-AlaskaTour
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