World War II scrapbook, 1914-1950, 1942-1946.

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World War II scrapbook, 1914-1950, 1942-1946.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60337903

The collection consists of the World War II era scrapbook of U.S. Navy Seabee John Andrew Higgins. The 63 page scrapbook contained clippings, photographs, and personal items concerning Higgins' activities from 1942-1946, along with some loose items placed in the scrapbook. A xerographic copy was made of the original scrapbook and most of the photographs were removed and placed in an album. The clippings are from magazines and other publications, and include coverage of the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943, the building of the Alaska Highway in 1942, the retaking of Attu and Kiska Islands in the Aleutians in 1943, and the Bermuda Islands. The 158 photographs and 6 negatives include those of John A. Higgins and fellow seamen, scenes form the building of the Alaska Highway, coworkers, construction and supply facilities, and the CANOL oil refinery in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, views of a railroad engine and plow clearing snow from the White Pass and Yukon Railroad, Higgins and coworkers in Saint George, Hamilton, and Greystones, Bermuda, and various scenic images of the Whitehorse area, Canada, Alaska, and the Bermuda Islands. Personal items mounted in the scrapbook include identification and membership cards, service ribbons, leave and liberty requests, a 1943 Thanksgiving dinner menu from the 51st Station Hospital in North Africa, ticket stubs, baggage tags, and a meal pass. Loose items placed with the scrapbook include a mounted photograph (split in two) of a Wallace School elementary class from 1914, a tour diary and school report by Carolina Pizzano from 1926-1927, an aerial photograph of the University of Alaska campus in College removed from a publication, a clipping from the Yukon Winter Carnival in Whitehorse from March 1945, a Don C. Knudsen photograph of Wonder Lake in McKinley National Park from 1943, 7 photographs of Higgins' wife and children from 1946 and 1950, and 6 black and white photograph negatives of Higgins in Bermuda in 1945-1946.

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UAA/APU Consortium Library, Consortium Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7776839

UAA/APU Consortium Library, Consortium Library

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United States. Navy. Seabees

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White Pass & Yukon Route (Firm)

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The White Pass & Yukon Route built the White Pass Railway, a 110-mile, narrow-gauge railroad running from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada; construction began in 1898 and was completed in 1900. From the description of Payroll records, 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702171545 From the description of Payroll records, 1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80056574 The White Pass & Yukon Route built the White Pass Railway, a 110-mile, ...

Higgins, John Andrew.

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John Andrew Higgins served in the Seabees branch of the United States Navy during world War II. He was recruited in Boston, Massachusetts, and originally trained at Camp Endicott in Davisville, Rhode Island (70th Battalion, Company A, Fleet 3, Naval Construction Training Center), in 1942-1943. Higgins was a lighterman involved in the invasion of Sicily in 1943. He was working in the Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, supply center for construction of the Alaska Highway in 1945. Higgins then worked con...