George A. Parks photograph collection, ca. 1911-1933. [graphic].

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George A. Parks photograph collection, ca. 1911-1933. [graphic].

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The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928. Other images were taken by Parks when he worked for the U.S. Land Office and include Alaskan villages, mining operations, and vessels on the Yukon. The collection also contains aerial photographs of southeast Alaska from the U.S. Navy Alaska Aerial Survey Expedition in 1926.

625 photoprints : b&w.

Alaska State Library

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