First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry (at center right), with Copper River and Northwestern Railway ferry landings visible at foreground and background, Miles Glacier, Alaska, July 9, 1909
Caption on image: First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry July 9. '09 C.R. & N.W. Ry Handwritten on verso of image is a letter from Livingston Wernecke, a geologist and UW graduate who appears to have been working on the construction of the C.R. & N.W. Railway, to UW Professor Milnor Roberts:...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:alaskawcanada/1047 2023-05-15T16:20:16+02:00 First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry (at center right), with Copper River and Northwestern Railway ferry landings visible at foreground and background, Miles Glacier, Alaska, July 9, 1909 University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division United States--Alaska--Miles Glacier 3.5 x 5.5 in. Scanned from an original photographic postcard using a Microtek ArtixScan 1800f at 110 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2005. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/1047 unknown Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection AWC1702 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/1047 For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Use Permissions page: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/permission-for-use University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division Alaska Postcards. PH Coll 800 Piers & wharves--Alaska Mountains--Alaska Railroad ferries--Alaska Postcard; image ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:03:09Z Caption on image: First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry July 9. '09 C.R. & N.W. Ry Handwritten on verso of image is a letter from Livingston Wernecke, a geologist and UW graduate who appears to have been working on the construction of the C.R. & N.W. Railway, to UW Professor Milnor Roberts: Dear Prof. Roberts, This card is one of my own manufacture of an object of my own invention, both drawings and construction . has been my chief worry for the 4 1/2 mos. when the lake was not frozen over. Because of floating ice bergs, the cost of maintenance was 1/3 of the original cost. Best wishes for a merry Christmas and a Happy year of 1910. [signed] Livingston Wernecke. Filed in Alaska--Cities/Location--Miles Glacier The Copper River and Northwestern, or C.R. and N.W., Railway was built between 1909 and 1912 to serve the Kennicott copper mining area. Despite early claims that C.R. & N.W. stood for "Can't Run and Never Will," the railroad operated successfully until it was abandoned when large scale mining ended in 1938. [Source: http://www.nps.gov/wrst/mccarthyroadgeology.htm ] Livingston Wernecke.was an assistant in Mining during his undergraduate years[at the University of Washington]. Wernecke later became famous in Juneau gold mining, and found jobs for over 15 of Washington's graduates in Mining Engineering at the Treadwell complex of gold mines; later Wernecke was a consulting geologist for the famous Alaska Juneau mine. [Source: depts.washington.edu/mse/about/ docs/Centennial_A%20History%20of%20MSE.pdf ] Other/Unknown Material glacier Alaska University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Treadwell ENVELOPE(-144.850,-144.850,-77.017,-77.017) Wernecke ENVELOPE(-135.271,-135.271,63.952,63.952) |
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Caption on image: First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry July 9. '09 C.R. & N.W. Ry Handwritten on verso of image is a letter from Livingston Wernecke, a geologist and UW graduate who appears to have been working on the construction of the C.R. & N.W. Railway, to UW Professor Milnor Roberts: Dear Prof. Roberts, This card is one of my own manufacture of an object of my own invention, both drawings and construction . has been my chief worry for the 4 1/2 mos. when the lake was not frozen over. Because of floating ice bergs, the cost of maintenance was 1/3 of the original cost. Best wishes for a merry Christmas and a Happy year of 1910. [signed] Livingston Wernecke. Filed in Alaska--Cities/Location--Miles Glacier The Copper River and Northwestern, or C.R. and N.W., Railway was built between 1909 and 1912 to serve the Kennicott copper mining area. Despite early claims that C.R. & N.W. stood for "Can't Run and Never Will," the railroad operated successfully until it was abandoned when large scale mining ended in 1938. [Source: http://www.nps.gov/wrst/mccarthyroadgeology.htm ] Livingston Wernecke.was an assistant in Mining during his undergraduate years[at the University of Washington]. Wernecke later became famous in Juneau gold mining, and found jobs for over 15 of Washington's graduates in Mining Engineering at the Treadwell complex of gold mines; later Wernecke was a consulting geologist for the famous Alaska Juneau mine. [Source: depts.washington.edu/mse/about/ docs/Centennial_A%20History%20of%20MSE.pdf ] |
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First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry (at center right), with Copper River and Northwestern Railway ferry landings visible at foreground and background, Miles Glacier, Alaska, July 9, 1909 |
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First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry (at center right), with Copper River and Northwestern Railway ferry landings visible at foreground and background, Miles Glacier, Alaska, July 9, 1909 |
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First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry (at center right), with Copper River and Northwestern Railway ferry landings visible at foreground and background, Miles Glacier, Alaska, July 9, 1909 |
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First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry (at center right), with Copper River and Northwestern Railway ferry landings visible at foreground and background, Miles Glacier, Alaska, July 9, 1909 |
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First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry (at center right), with Copper River and Northwestern Railway ferry landings visible at foreground and background, Miles Glacier, Alaska, July 9, 1909 |
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first trip of miles glacier ferry (at center right), with copper river and northwestern railway ferry landings visible at foreground and background, miles glacier, alaska, july 9, 1909 |
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