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| Description: | View down business-lined First Avenue. Pedestrians are walking along the street. Caption reads: "Looking Up First Avenue — Fairbanks, Alaska. In The Winter... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original lithograph promoting Alaska, and to get there by way of the the Northern Pacific Railway. Features the artwork of Sydney Laurence, with a depic... |
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| Description: | A view of a train crossing the Yukon Railway Bridge at White Pass, with pedestrians on one the side of the tracks. Caption reads: "White Pass And Yukon R.Y... |
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| Description: | View of a city, filled with snow. A prominent business sign reads: "Alaska Printing Co: Photo Engraving." A pedestrian can be seen in the distance slogging... |
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| Description: | View of a riverboat on Copper River with the Chugach Mountains rising in the background. |
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| Description: | Miles Glacier and a steamboat on the Copper River. |
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| Description: | View across water toward three men in a rowboat on a river in a mountain gorge. |
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| Description: | A view of Perry Island, a recent volcanic island. Caption reads: "Perry Island, recently thrown up in Behring Sea." |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Fort Seward from Mount Rippinsky, showing Pyramid Harbor and Davidson Glacier in distance. Caption reads: "Haines and Fort Wm. H. Seward f... |
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| Description: | View over shoreline toward steamboats moored out in a harbor with buildings lining the far shoreline. Caption reads: "Steamboats at St. Michael, Alaska." |
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| Description: | A public schoolhouse with a group of children and a dog posing in front. Text in lower left corner reads: "The Public School, Fairbanks Alaska." |
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| Description: | A view of Kennedy's Pack Train, about to cross the Chena River. The pack train carried large amounts of gold dust taken from creeks. Caption reads: "Kenned... |
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| Description: | Several men and a child stand near a train equipped with a snow plow. A passenger car sits nearby, and three men, possibly railroad employees, stand on the... |
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| Description: | View of the Tanana Mine Railway train parked in a wooded area. Text on what appears to be a passenger car reads: "T.M.W." Caption reads: "Fairbanks, Alaska... |
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| Description: | View of passengers disembarking from a lighter by means of a platform suspended from a derrick in the water near Nome. Caption reads: "Leaving for their ha... |
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| Description: | View of a steamboat transporting freight to Fairbanks. Text on photograph reads: "Rushing Freight To Fairbanks In The Fall." |
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| Description: | View of several steamboats docked. Boats in the foreground are the "Lavelle Young" and "Isabelle" (text "Isabelle" partially obscured). Boat in the backgro... |
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| Description: | View of the paddle steamer "Monarch" and two barges in the river. "Monarch O.E.G." is painted on the rear of the ship. Two men are on the "Monarch" and on ... |
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| Description: | Two antlered sled-pulling caribou rest in a snowy field next to sleds carrying packs. Caption reads: "Alaska Reindeer." |
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| Description: | Two men pumping handcar on White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad. This railroad served the needs of Yukon's population as well as its mining industry since 18... |
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