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B2015.008.598
{milllion Dollar Bridge over the Copper River with Miles Glacier in the background}
Keywords: Copper River, bridge, glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.595a
(116_10) {Childs glacier or Miles glacier and Copper River}
Keywords: glacier, Copper River
Collection: B2015.008
B1962.001A.424
Glacier / Miles Glacier Ry. Station [double caption]
Keywords: Glaciers, Landscapes, Scenic, Railroad stations, Railroads, Railways, Miles Glacier Railway Station
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1962.001A.384
Copper River and Northwestern Railway Co.’s $1,500,000.00 steel bridge across the Copper River, Alaska, at Miles Glacier Station. P.S. Hunt, G3701 [Miles Glacier Bridge] [Ahtna Territory, Atna (Copper River)]
Keywords: Ahtna Territory, Atna, Copper River, Northwestern Railway Co., Miles Glacier Bridge, Bridge, Miles Glaciet Station, Copper River and Northwestern Railway, CR&NWRY
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1979.002.Album1.196
Million and a half dollar bridge at Miles Glacier, mile 49, C. R. & N. W. Ry. P. S. Hunt J1893 [view of Miles Glacier Bridge, Copper River & Northwestern Railway, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.008.827a
From moving train, ice 2 or 3 miles away [view across river to glacier terminus]
Keywords: glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.826
Miles Glacier, 100 m. long at least. Copper River Ry. At left is its moraine overgrown
with alders [view across river to glacier terminus]
Keywords: glacier
Collection: B2015.008
B2009.012.5
Caisson, Miles Glacier Bridge, Copper River Railway, June 2, '09. E.A. Hegg 272
Collection: B2009.012
B1962.001A.423
Miles Glacier / Miles Glacier, Copper River, Alaska. E.A. Hegg [double caption] [Likely Ahtna territory, Atna (Copper River)]
Keywords: Glaciers, Copper River, Atna, Ahtna territory, Rivers
Collection: B1962.001A Crary-Henderson
B1962.001.1472
“Copper River. Bridge 27A [second negative very similar, not identical; Copper River and Northwestern Railway; Miles Glacier Bridge (?)] [Ahtna Territory, Atna (Copper River)]
Keywords: Ahtna Territory, Atna, Copper River, River, Miles Glacier Bridge, Bridge, Train, Locomotive, CR&NWRY, Copper River and Northwestern Railway, Railway, Railroad, Transportation
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1962.001.0272
[Miles Glacier (?); Copper River (?); Boats and boating]
Keywords: Will Crary, Copper River, River, Boat, Boating, Ice, Icy, Icy waters, Glacier, Miles Glacier, Mountains, Mountain range, Men, Paddling
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1983.146.206
Miles Glacier and Iceberg 905 Roark Photo Cordova, Alaska
Collection: B1983.146 Pyatt Laurence Negatives
B2015.008.586
(Copper River and the Abecrombie Canyon rapids Miles Glacier moraine)
Keywords: Copper River
Collection: B2015.008
B1962.001.1467
“At Miles Glacier Bridge-May 10. Lenoir, Delong, Whittlesy, Romig, Hazlett, Donohoe, Boryer, Dennison, Kahn” [same photo at B62.1.807; Crary neg. 1910-94 [Romig, Joseph Herman; Dennison, Pink]
Keywords: Miles Glacier Bridge, Bridges, Lenoir, Delong, Whittlesy, Joseph Herman Romig, Joseph Romig, Hazlett, Donohoe, Boryer, Pink Dennison, Kahn, Group photos
Collection: B1962.001 Crary-Henderson
B1989.016.288.20
Tate, Tazlina Glacier Lodge. PC Negs, mile 156 Glenn Highway. [dog]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.008.827b
From moving train, ice 2 or 3 miles away [view across river to glacier terminus]
.827b – [same as .827a]
Keywords: glacier, copper river
Collection: B2015.008
AEC.G1094
A.E.C. G1094 Seward Div. Gov't Railroad View of Glacier From - Mile 46 - Oct. 20 -1918
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1989.016.288.28
Tazlina Glacier Lodge, mile 156 Glenn Highway, Alaska [three log cabins. Copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.Album1.131
R24-2. Miles Glacier [view of glacier terminus, possibly taken from tracks of Copper River & Northwestern Railway, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.006
Scn Alaska. Portage Glacier. A tour bus stops-the glacier is about 60 miles south of Anchorage; June 1960. [Trailways bus, people in parking lot, icebergs]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B1989.016.288.27
Tazlina Glacier Lodge, mile 156 Glenn Highway, Alaska [bus at gas pump in front of lodge. Copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.010
Scn. Portage Glacier, about 60 miles south of Anchorage on the Seward Hiway. It is on the Chugach National Forest. Alaska. [ice, water, mountains]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2015.008.721
320.10-11 [small format panoramic photograph, bird’s eye view of river valley, glacier
terminus in distance, three small tents on beach in foreground, gravel bars in river, Miles
Glacier?]
Keywords: Copper River, Wrangell Mountains
Collection: B2015.008
B1979.002.Album1.211
Baird Glacier, Mile 66, C. R. & N. W. Ry. P. S. Hunt J1897 [view of the terminus of the glacier from Copper River & Northwestern Railway route, circa 1914]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1990.014.5.Scn.1.009
Scn Alaska. Portage Glacier. A tour bus stops briefly in front of glacier. About 60 miles south of Anchorage on the Seward-Kenai, Anchorage Hiway; June 1960. [Trailways bus, people in parking lot, icebergs, mountains]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990_014_5_Scn
B2015.008.669
223.5. Geography. Right to left. Bryn Mawr, Vassar and Wellesley Glaciers, College
Fjord, Alaska. They are the remnants of a great glacier which once filled the fjord, and were
once tributary to the Harvard Glacier now 4 miles up the fjord (to the right) [bird’s eye view
looking down fjord, small rowboat in water, gnarled pine tree at left. With stamp of Dora
Keen. Cf. .16]
Keywords: tidal glacier, Prince William Sound, glacier, College Fiord
Collection: B2015.008
AEC.G1579
Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels & Admiral Hugh Rodman, viewing Spencer Glacier, Mile 56 Gov't R-Road. June 15, 1920
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1979.002.Album1.130
R24-3. C & NW Ry [view of gravel riverbed, probably taken near Miles Glacier from tracks of Copper River & Northwestern Railway, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.206
Looking ahead across Spencer Glacier flats to Mile 53. P. S. Hunt J1858 [view down Alaska Northern Railway/Alaska Railroad tracks running over glacial outflow, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B2015.026.1252
Lake Louise and on way home, 3/00 [Patty asleep on snowmachine, scenics of Glenn Highway including Lion’s Head and Palmer area] [Lions Head Mountain in center, Glacier View mile 106.]
Keywords: Lake Louise, Lake, Glenn Highway, Glenn HWY, Glenn Hwy, Highway, Scenic, View, Winter, Midwinter, Snow, Snowy, Mountain, Mountain range, Lions Head, Lion's Head, Glacier View, Mile 106
Collection: B2015.026
B2015.026.1251
Lake Louise and on way home, 3/00 [Patty asleep on snowmachine, scenics of Glenn Highway including Lion’s Head and Palmer area] [Lions Head Mountain at distance in center, Glacier View mile 106.]
Keywords: Lake Louise, Lake, Glenn Highway, Glenn HWY, Glenn Hwy, Highway, Scenic, View, Winter, Midwinter, Snow, Snowy, Mountain, Mountain range, Lions Head, Lion's Head, Glacier View, Mile 106
Collection: B2015.026
B1979.002.Album1.126
10-C. Crib Dike Mile 54 1/2 A.N. Ry. C. R. Breck [wooden dike on gravelly river near Spencer Glacier, Alaska Northern Railway Route, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.232
Trestles on Baird Glacier flats, Mile 65, C. R. & N. W. Ry. P. S. Hunt J1900 [workers standing on Copper River & Northwestern Railway tracks running across glacial outflow]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1974.040.095
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
B1979.002.Album1.125
8C. Looking south A.N.R. track Mile 54 1/2. C. R. Breck [view down railroad tracks over gravelly river near Spencer Glacier, Alaska Northern Railway Route, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1979.002.Album1.240
Looking back to point at mile 56 1/2 A. N. Ry. Spencer Glacier flats. P. S. Hunt, J1857 [view down Alaska Northern Railway/Alaska Railroad tracks, track torn up by glacial outflow, circa 1914]
Keywords: transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1994.022.031
Muir Glacier, Alaska, copyrighted 1905 by Winter & Pond Co. 115 [colored postcard "from Ruth Miller" written on front; from verso: "45 miles from Juneau" and "March 1973 from Mrs Ruth Miller" 132 High Street; Mount Clemens, Mich 48043"
Collection: B1994.022 Hoyt Collection