31 images from collection B1974_040 Charles Weller Collection

B1974.040.006

Unloading cargo from U.S. Army transports and Alaska SS vessels, Alaska Railroad dock at Seward, 1940. Robert Liese (later became CAA communicator) and Quartermaster Corps civilian cargo inspector, summer of 1940 [two men standing with wooden barrels and piled supplies in front of flatbed rail cars loaded with heavy equipment, ship visible in background left]
Keywords: military, transportation

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B1974.040.009

Unloading off Army cargo at Seward, 1940, Alaska RR dock [automobile being hoisted off Alaska Steamship Co. ship, soldiers in uniform on decks]
Keywords: military, transportation

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Canneries. Ship Creek and the tide flats in front of old Alaska Railway Depot in 1937--to left are some small fish camp buildings and to the right forward are Emard, Sonnecke, and General Fish Co. docks and canneries.

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Canneries. Toward Anchorage from Emard Cannery Dok in 1938. Present area of Gambell St. was vacant then. Old Anchorage Hotel is white building on hill to right. MV Discoverer tied up - white boat. Henry J. tender tied ahead. Tender North Cape in foreground.

Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection

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Canneries. Two cannery scows on flats waiting to go out for fish summer of 1938. Site of Emard Cannery (now Fidalgo) Anchorage.

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Canneries. Anchorage. Princess pat, a trading boat to load on sacked Matanuska coal at old Emard Dock; Sonnecke Cannery is to rear. 1937.

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Selling Indian moccasins in Juneau to the SS Yukon passengers, October 1939. Most of these buildings have been replaced.

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Selling Indian moccasins in Juneau to the SS Yukon passengers, October 1939. Most of these buildings have been replaced.

Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection

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(Holy Ascension Russian Orthodox Church, Unalaska , January 1941 was seldom used then but was in fairly good condition)
Keywords: church, russian orthodox, unalaska

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Claude Rogers on left, and Arloe Kessinger on right on skis at Fishook in 1936; they were mechanics for Alaska Road Commission all over Alaska. No bindings were used then for skis and no special boots. Mrs. Kessinger was Esther Brown, whose father was the Railroad agent, Neil Brown, at Wasilla. She was secretary to Elmer Rasmussen at Alaska Nat. Bank many years.

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Mt. Mckinley National Park Claude Rogers operating old style gas shovel Alaska Road Comm. road at mile 78 (Muldrow Glacier--base of north side Mt. McKinley, September 1936, Kantishna Mines road.

Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection

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B1974.040.096b

The U.S.S.R. & M. gold dredge (Fairbanks Expl. Dept.) at Goldstream, 1940 [United States Smelting, Refining, and Mining Company’s dredge]

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Canneries. Like a Syd. Lawrence scene -- abandoned small cannery just south of town at Seward in 1937 -- below present site of Alaska U. Research Center.

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B1974.040.132

Victor Neck and Kenneth Harvey with two Eskimo women at Wiseman, about 1937. Neck was known as "The Viking" and a very rugged one. Harvey was on many of the exploration teams such as Marshal's and many of the U.S. GLO-- mining at Wiseman and Hammond River then.

Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection

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Victor Neck and Kenneth Harvey with two Eskimo women at Wiseman, about 1937. Neck was known as "The Viking" and a very rugged one. Harvey was on many of the exploration teams such as Marshal's and many of the U.S. GLO-- mining at Wiseman and Hammond River then.

Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection

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Wasilla, Alaska Old Fishook Roadhouse buildings (then empty 1936) above Wasilla; Claude Rogers on left and Chas. Weller on right; The mines were running above, then, but no use was had for the roadhouse any longer there.

Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection