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Cartographic and Audiovisual Records.

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Cartographic records, 1878-1942 (12,379 items), consist of maps relating to the Hawaiian Islands, 1878-1906, and Alaska, 1923-27; and manuscript and annotated maps and charts and aerial photographs of Antarctica from the U.S. Antarctic Service Expedition, 1939-41. Audiovisual records include photographs, 1908-48 (21,268 items), of the Copper River Railroad, Alaska, 1908; the survey, construction, and operation of the Alaska Railroad and Alaskan agricultural production, 1914-23; President Warren G. Harding in Alaska and his funeral; Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration activiities and Puerto Rican terrain, vegetation, animals, buildings, and people, 1935-48; and the 1939-41 U.S. Antarct610Service (Byrd) Expedition. There are also motion pictures (97 reels) of the Byrd expedition, 1939-41.

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National Archives Library, National Archives Records Administration

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