Alaska Railroad construction, ca. 1915-1918 [graphic].

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Alaska Railroad construction, ca. 1915-1918 [graphic].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42926621

This collection documents the preliminary route exploration, surveying, and early construction of the Alaska Railroad, ca. 1915-1917. Views include railroad survey and construction work, bridges, and the towns of Fort Seward, Anchorage, Seward and Cordova. Also included is a portrait of Thomas Guy Wansbury and one panorama of the original railroad survey crew. Includes views by Louis H. Pedersen, Paul Beran, John E. Thwaites, and Straughan.

152 photoprints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.

Alaska State Library

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Wansbury, Thomas Guy, 1889-1972.

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Thomas Guy Wansbury was born in England in 1889 and emigrated to the United States in 1912. First employed as a civil engineering surveyor by Southern Pacific RR in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Arrived in Alaska around 1915 to work as a surveyor on the Alaska Railroad construction. Enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Seward, Alaska in 1918. After discharge from the Army, he returned to California and continued working in surveying. He died in San Mateo, California on February 22, 1972. ...

Pedersen, Louis H.

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The Reverend Pedersen was an early missionary in Alaska. He first served the Methodist Episcopal Church in Douglas, Alaska, from 1905 until 1906 when he was appointed to establish a church in Seward. He conducted services in Seward in a 20 x 30 foot tent and lived in the back until the church was built. From Seward he went to Skagway. His name is associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church in Skagway in the 1911-1912 Polk's Alaska Yukon Gazetteer and with the First Presbyterian Church of Skag...

Alaska Railroad

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Thwaites, John E. (John Edward), 1863-1940

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John Edward Thwaites was born in Eastwood, Ontario, Canada, in 1863. The family moved to Michigan around 1871. In 1885, Thwaites married Carrie Warne, and the two worked as schoolteachers in Michigan until Thwaites's ill health led the couple to relocate to Florida. Unable to establish a viable career as a teacher, Thwaites applied at the Florida Southern Railroad for a position as a federal Railway Mail Service clerk in 1895. In 1901 he was transferred to Spokane to work for the Rocky Mountain ...

Beran, Paul

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