Robert A. Lilly photograph collection, 1920-1921.

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Robert A. Lilly photograph collection, 1920-1921.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434181116

The Robert A. Lilly Photograph Collection consists of 30 black-and-white photographs, most of them real-photo postcards, with scenes of Ketchikan, Cordova, Chitina, Fairbanks, Tanana, and Fort Gibbon, Alaska. Other images include the Alaska Railroad, the Tanana Valley Railroad, the Gulkana Roadhouse, the vessels Northwestern and Yukon, and Alaskan wildlife. Also found in the collection are several newspaper clippings describing Lilly's trip to Fort Gibbon in 1920 and his impressions of Alaska's economic potential.

0.25 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7523633

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Lilly, Robert A.

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Robert A. Lilly was dispatched to Fort Gibbon, Alaska, in the fall of 1920 as an Army instructor. Having reached Seattle too late in the season to reach Fort Gibbon by ship and riverboat, he instead traveled by ship as far as Valdez or Cordova, Alaska, and then overland. He returned to San Francisco in July 1921. From the description of Robert A. Lilly photograph collection, 1920-1921. (University of Alaska, Fairbanks). WorldCat record id: 434181116 ...

Tanana Valley Railroad Company

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Yukon (Steamer)

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Alaska Railroad

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The Alaska Railroad began operating in 1923, under the Alaska Railroad Commission (previously the Alaskan Engineering Commission). From the description of Alaska Railroad tour lantern slide collection [graphic], 1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 56507928 During World War II, the Alaska Railroad was used by the army to transport military personnel, supplies, and construction materials between Seward, Whittier, Anchorage, and Fairbanks. To facilitate these activities and to...