Alaska records describing the work of the U.S. Alaska Road Commission, 1915-1957, and the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, 1963-1974.

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Alaska records describing the work of the U.S. Alaska Road Commission, 1915-1957, and the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, 1963-1974.

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Includes scrapbooks of clippings, a file of records concerning the Savage Bridge Project in Mt. McKinley National Park, a folder concerning earthquake damage to the highway system in 1964, project engineer field diaries for the Starrigavan Bay Crossing, Sitka Highway.

3.4 linear ft. (4 boxes)

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7489388

Alaska State Library

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United States. Alaska Road Commission

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This collection records the construction of roads, trails and bridges in Alaska from approximately 1909-1959. The Alaska Road Commission was established in 1905 as a board of the U.S. War Department where it remained until 1932. Many of Alaska's oldest highways are named for officers of the early Road Commission: Valdez-Chitina-Fairbanks military road was renamed the Richardson Highway for Brig. Gen. Wilds P. Richardson, the Steese Highway for Col. James G. Steese, the Elliot Highway for Maj. Ma...

United States. Bureau of Public Roads

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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Alaska Division.

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