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B2006.023.6920.jpg
Pana-Vue JH100J2. Alaskan Birds. Alaskan Canadian goose.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington / for Joe Jr to review / 6000-6999
B2006.023.6920
Pana-Vue JH100J2. Alaskan Birds. Alaskan Canadian goose.
Collection: B2006.023 Redington
B2017.023.141
[airfield? likely Royal Canadian Air Force, Whitehorse, YT, Canada]
Collection: B2017.023
B1979.002.4916b
"8/6/1919 Canadian oats & visitors; Chatnika bunch" [similar to .4916a]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B2015.008.1259
Canadian Rockies, Lake Louise, Abbott's Pass, The Death Trap 1898 [Matted]
Keywords: mountains, glaciers
Collection: B2015.008
B2017.023.142
Royal Canadian Air Force, Whitehorse, YT, Elevation 2300 feet [sign, Canada]
Collection: B2017.023
B1975.090.033
From verso: BuAer 78303 Aug 1943. Conference of US and Canadian Army and Navy Chiefs before the landing on Kiska.
Collection: B1975.090
B1990.014.2018.1.50.002
20-3 Princess Alice; 105 mm [passengers aboard Canadian Pacific Railway steamship; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
B1990.014.2018.1.50.002
20-3 Princess Alice; 105 mm [passengers aboard Canadian Pacific Railway steamship; likely July 1939, Ketchikan]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_2018
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]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District
B1983.091.C8789.2
Lord Gillam Sale Bin; Lord Gillam Cognac Napoleon, Lord Gillam Dry Gin, Lord Gillam Canadian Whiskey 2/9/1972 Wednesday
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1983.091.C8789.3
Lord Gillam Sale Bin; Lord Gillam Cognac Napoleon, Lord Gillam Dry Gin, Lord Gillam Canadian Whiskey 2/9/1972 Wednesday
Collection: B1983.091 Ward Wells / Commercial
B1979.002.4914
"8/5/1919 Canadian Oats & visitors, N.C. bunch" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 48; four men standing in field, suits, neckties, hats, agriculture]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1998.014.1.1758
T78 Canadian Ship at Ketchikan (HMS Prince George, Ketchikan, Alaska) [view of bow as ship approaches, passengers at deck railings, men, women, children, life boats, anchor]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.4909
"7/26/1919 Rev Lumpkin, Canadian oats, auto & visitors" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 44, children, boys in oat field, hats, overalls, trees in background, agriculture]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4899
"5/7/1919 seeding going north, Canadian oats, tractor, drill, pulverizer" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 30, man driving tractor, planter, disc, field, dust, agriculture, trees in background.]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4916a
"8/6/1919 Canadian oats & visitors; Chatnika bunch" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 49; four people standing in oat field; two men; two women; hats; agriculture, trees in backgroud]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4910
"7/26/1919, Rev Lumpkin, Canadian oats, auto & visitors" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 45; Reverend Hope Henry Lumpkin, Episcopal, minister, four boys near automobile, Ford, Model T, touring car, agriculture]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4911
"7/26/1919, Rev Lumpkin, Canadian oats, auto & visitors" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, sleeve 46; Reverend Hope Henry Lumpkin, Episcopal minister, four boys, children, automobile, Ford, Model T, touring car, agriculture]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1979.002.4682
"9/1 cutting Canadian oats for hay. N[orth] hillside" [sleeve 17, Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, circa 1918; child wearing overalls, straw hat operates equipment, reins, two horses, harnesses, yoke, pull equipmnet, field, agriculture]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1995.014.2.19
Willow and people. Left woman was married to a Native preacher named Wilson. Right woman was married to a French Canadian named Joe. [two Alaska Native women wearing fur parkas and mukluks posed outdoors, building in background. Has 8 x 10 print]
Keywords: clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1979.002.4693
"7/26 Canadian oats or Fallow Ed land; Hahn & Berry; 43-1/2 Rev Lumpkin, auto & visitors" [Fairbanks Experiment Farm, milepost 466, Reverend Hope Henry Lumpkin, Episcopal minister, automobile, touring car, parked in front of field; people standing in field of oats, trees in background. Sleeve 43 contained only one image]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
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]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
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]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
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]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
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]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
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]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
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]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
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]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
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]
Keywords: Alaska Highway, Canadian Army, United States Army
Collection: B1962.x_015 CIHS US Army Engineer District