Bill Frame photograph collection [graphic], 1912-1940.

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Bill Frame photograph collection [graphic], 1912-1940.

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The collection contains views of tourists, automobiles, and transportation companies in Alaska in the early 20th century. Hotels, roadhouses and transportation companies, mostly in the region of the Richardson Highway (or Fairbanks-Valdez Trail) are shown. Locations include Chitina, Paxson, Gulkana, Copper Creek, Salchaket, Sourdough, Kenny Lake, McCarty, Meiers and others. Also included are a few images of the Black Wolf Squadron. Individuals and community businesses are identified.

300 photographs : b&w.

Alaska State Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7773227

Alaska State Library

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Frame, Bill (John William),

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John William Frame, "Bill," was an equipment operator for the Alaska Road Commission on the Valdez Fairbanks Trail, which later became the Richardson Highway. He was a driver for the Richardson Highway Transportation Company and may have driven for other companies. He appears frequently in the photographs near a vehicle. His father, John Whitfield Frame, was a lawyer practicing in Washington State when gold was discovered in the Klondike. He traveled over the Chilkoot Trail and on to Dawson in 1...

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...