Alaska Highway construction photographs, 1942-1943.

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Alaska Highway construction photographs, 1942-1943.

Alaska Highway construction photographs, 1942-1943.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60130509

The collection consists of 66 photographs taken by an unknown soldier in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during construction of the Alaska Highway in British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. Locations of the photographs include Fort St. John, British Columbia, the Liard River Bridge (milepost 495.8), Nisutlin Bay Bridge (milepost 807), the construction camp at milepost 125, the Elliot Construction Company Camp at Kluane Lake (milepost 256), Morris Lake, Soldiers Summit (milepost 1061), the construction camp at Watson Lake (milepost 635), the Rancheria River, the Donjek River, and the construction camp at Morley Bay (milepost 777). Equipment depicted include an Osgood 1/2 yard shovel, a "Quickway" truck crane, bulldozers, a U.S.A. American Crane, a steam crane, a 1 1/2 ton Chevrolet truck, a half track armoured vehicle, a 6 ton Corbitt Truck, and a portable sawmill. Several of the photographs depict the construction of the bridges over the Liard River and Nisutlin Bay. In addition, there are 11 conservation negatives for some of these photographs.

.1 cu. ft.66 photographs : b&w ; 7 x 9 cm.-7 x 12 cm. + 11 photograph negatives.

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