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The Anchorage Museum library includes books, maps, and print resources focused on Alaska and the Circumpolar North. The public is welcome to access the collection and conduct research on-site during open hours, or by appointment.
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B1962.x.015.001
Cutting highway path – A wide path is cut through a grove of trees for the Alcan Highway during the early construction days in 1942. Photo courtesy Canadian Army [same as .24]
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1962.x.015.002
Pioneer Rd. – This photo shows the 1st rough pioneer road on the Alcan Highway during its construction days in World War II. Later this rough road was to become a smoothly graveled highway traveled by thousands of tourists. [US Army photograph] [1942-1943]
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1962.x.015.003
Engineer Construction troops couldn’t wait for bridges as they rushed work on the AK Highway during WWII. Here trucks are shown crossing the Teslin River at Johnsons Crossing using a pontoon ferry. Nov. 20 is the 15th anniversary of the completion of the AK Highway. [US Army photograph] [1942-1943]
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1962.x.015.004
Mud was a major enemy during construction of the AK Highway in WWII by the U.S. Army Engineers. Here a mired bulldozer winches itself out, as soldiers of Co. D 93rd Engineer Regiment dig a culvert emplacement during the early construction days. [US Army photograph] [1942-1943]
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1962.x.015.005
Mired in the mud – Permanently frozen ground, which turned into a bottomless bog when cleared of topsoil, presented 1 of the major problems during construction of the AK Highway by the U.S. Army Engineers. Here one D-8 tractor is shown mired in the Alcan mud 67 miles east of Teslin, Y.T., during the construction days. Nov. 20 is the 15th anniversary of the completion of the 1,600 mi. long highway built by Corps of Engineers troops. [US Army photograph] [1942-1943]
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1962.x.015.006
Alcan bridge building – Hundreds of northern streams, many of which turned into raging torrents in the spring, had to be crossed in building the AK Highway. Shown in the photo is a rough-hewn bridge being put in over Goose Creek, 12 miles north of Teslin, Y.T. [US Army photograph] [1942-1943]
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1962.x.015.027
[from verso:] Alaska Highway. Dozens of streams and lakes both large and small, had to be spanned as theroad progressed. Practically every type of timber structure was used to provide a crossing, but the type most often used was the timber trestle bridge. This photo shows a trestle bridge during construction and illustrates the use of the timber immediately adjacent to the bridge site. [1942-1943]
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1962.x.15.17
U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska Corps of Engineers Late in September, 1942, this truck was driven up the Alcan from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse--the first truck to make the entire trip.
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1962.x.015.008
Spring break up on the Alcan Highway during the early construction days of WWII. Mud was one of the major enemies which had to be conquered in completing the 1,600 mile-long highway to AK. [US Army photograph] [1942-1943]
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1962.x.015.017
U.S. Army Engineer District, Alaska Corps of Engineers Late in September, 1942, this truck was driven up the Alcan from Dawson Creek to Whitehorse--the first truck to make the entire trip. [1942-1943]
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District