Shorty MacKay and Gordon W. Luhman photograph collection [graphic] : Alaska Highway Construction, ca. 1942.

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Shorty MacKay and Gordon W. Luhman photograph collection [graphic] : Alaska Highway Construction, ca. 1942.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57319052

The album depicts Alaska Highway construction possibly during World War II, including road building machinery construction workers and construction camps. The photographs are not identified; information supplied by staff is bracketed. Some of the photographs show Alaska Native families, moose and bear.

1 album (409 photographs) : b&w ; 18 x 29 cm.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7761009

Alaska State Library

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MacKay, Shorty.

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The album was given to Luhman family by Shorty MacKay. MacKay was a former neighbor. No additional information is available about MacKay other than he served in the military during World War II. From the description of Shorty MacKay and Gordon W. Luhman photograph collection [graphic] : Alaska Highway Construction, ca. 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 57319052 ...

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...

Luhman, Gordon W.

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