Alaska Road Commission photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1909-1959.

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Alaska Road Commission photograph collection [graphic], ca. 1909-1959.

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Subjects include Alaskan trails, roads and highways including the Alaska Highway, Glenn Highway, Richardson Highway, Steese Highway, Mitkof Highway, White Pass Highway, Kake Highway, Tongass Highway, Mill Creek Highway, Seward Highway, Copper River Highway, Katalla Highway, Glacier Highway, Point Agassiz Highway, Eyak Lake Highway, Blind River Trail, Gartina Highway, Tracadero Road, Wrangell Highway, El Nido Road, Palmer Creek Highway, Crow Creek Highway (list is not exhaustive), bridges, earthquake damage, officers of the Alaska Road Commission, equipment, snow removal, and Alaska scenics.

100 slides : col.100 glass lantern slides : b&w, col. ; 3 x 4 in.16,759 photographs : b&w, col.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7616024

Alaska State Library

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Lomen Bros.

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The Lomen family was well known in Alaska for an entreprenurial spirit. Their interests varied from reindeer herding to law practice. The five Lomen brothers, Carl Joys, Alfred Julian, Harry, George, and Ralph helped create a reindeer industry, outfitted the Norwegian explorer Amundsen and participated in the birth of bush aviation in Alaska. Judge G.J. Lomen of St. Paul, Minnesota, moved to Nome after vacationing with a son, Carl, in the early 1900's. In 1903, they were joined by his wife, Juli...

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...