Walter L. Fisher photograph collection, 1909-1911 [graphic].

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Walter L. Fisher photograph collection, 1909-1911 [graphic].

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These 40 photographs were collected by Walter L. Fisher, then Secretary of the Interior, during a 1911 trip to determine the route of the Alaska Railroad. The photographs are commercially prepared by Eric A. Hegg (with one image by P.S. Hunt) and depict locations along the proposed route of the railroad. Views include the Childs Glacier, Cordova, Chitina, Kennecott Copper Mines, and locations along the Copper River. The photographs also feature the route of the Copper River and North West Railway, including the Miles Glacier Bridge and several railroad bridges, trestles and sections of track.

40 b&w photographs.

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