U.S. Alaska Engineering Commission photograph collection [graphic], 1916-1919.

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U.S. Alaska Engineering Commission photograph collection [graphic], 1916-1919.

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This collection includes views of Anchorage churches, buildings, hotels, theatres, and festivals, construction activities, facilities and equipment of the Alaska Railroad, then identified as Alaska Engineering Commission Railway. Views of other south central Alaskan towns are includes. Official photographers for the Commission, represented in the collection include: P.S. Hunt (Phine S.), H.G. Kaiser, A.J. Johnson and S. Laurence. The collection also includes views by The Sydney Laurence Co. and E.A. Hegg.

180 Photographic Prints (180 photographs)

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Laurence, Sydney, 1865-1940

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Sydney Mortimer Laurence (born October 14, 1865, Brooklyn, New York - died September 13, 1940, Anchorage, Alaska), American Romantic landscape painter widely considered one of Alaska's most important historical artists....

Kaiser, H. G.

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Hunt, P. S. 1866-1917.

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Alaskan Engineering Commission

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The Alaska Engineering Commission (AEC) was created by President Woodrow Wilson as part of the Alaska Railroad Act (38 Stat. 305), March 12, 1914, to supervise construction of Alaska's railways. The AEC went under the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1915. When construction was complete and the railroad began operating in 1923, the AEC became the Alaska Railroad Commission, redesignated The Alaska Railroad. From the description of U.S. Alaska Engineering Commission photograph colle...

Johnson, Albert J.

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Albert J. Johnson was born in Denmark in 1880 and immigrated to the United States after he was orphaned. He arrived in Fairbanks in 1905 and worked as a photographer there until 1914. In 1910, he married Jennie Landers and their daughter, Alice, was born in 1912. In 1914, the family moved to California to farm. From 1916-1918, however, Johnson worked in Alaska as an official government photographer for the Alaska Engineering Commission. These photographs depict the creation of Nenana as a townsi...

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...