Alaskan landscape as seen looking west from survey station 138, Alaska Midland Railway, Alaska, 1909
This album contains photos from the 1909 survey expedition for the first section of the Alaska Midland Railway line from Haines to the White River, Yukon Territory. PH Coll 230.9a The Alaska Midland Railway a venture of John Rosene, a Seattle entrepreneur, was planned and surveyed to run from the po...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:alaskawcanada/3089 2023-05-15T15:44:14+02:00 Alaskan landscape as seen looking west from survey station 138, Alaska Midland Railway, Alaska, 1909 University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division United States--Alaska Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2010. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3089 unknown Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection AWC3932 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3089 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 Midland Railway photograph album. PH Coll 230 Mountains--Alaska Rivers--Alaska Photograph; image ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:03:57Z This album contains photos from the 1909 survey expedition for the first section of the Alaska Midland Railway line from Haines to the White River, Yukon Territory. PH Coll 230.9a The Alaska Midland Railway a venture of John Rosene, a Seattle entrepreneur, was planned and surveyed to run from the port town of Haines (near Skagway), north through what is now Yukon Territory, ending at Fairbanks, Alaska. Rosene and his team of engineers chose this route because they believed its flat grade and connection of rich mineral, timber, and agricultural lands to the sea would make it a lucrative site. The company's original ambitions included connecting to other railways at Fairbanks and continuing the line westward into Siberia by bridge or tunnel across the Bering Strait. The railway was never completed, however. During World War I, the U.S. government completed a similar railway line from Fairbanks to Seward, Alaska, and the momentum for Rosene's project evaporated. The photographer of this album is unknown, but the 1909 survey team may have included H.R. Robbins, H.P.M. Birkinbine, Steve Sheldon, and Gus Klaney, all of whom were involved in a later survey of the route. Other/Unknown Material Bering Strait Skagway Alaska Siberia Yukon University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Yukon Fairbanks Bering Strait Midland ENVELOPE(8.224,8.224,63.072,63.072) |
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This album contains photos from the 1909 survey expedition for the first section of the Alaska Midland Railway line from Haines to the White River, Yukon Territory. PH Coll 230.9a The Alaska Midland Railway a venture of John Rosene, a Seattle entrepreneur, was planned and surveyed to run from the port town of Haines (near Skagway), north through what is now Yukon Territory, ending at Fairbanks, Alaska. Rosene and his team of engineers chose this route because they believed its flat grade and connection of rich mineral, timber, and agricultural lands to the sea would make it a lucrative site. The company's original ambitions included connecting to other railways at Fairbanks and continuing the line westward into Siberia by bridge or tunnel across the Bering Strait. The railway was never completed, however. During World War I, the U.S. government completed a similar railway line from Fairbanks to Seward, Alaska, and the momentum for Rosene's project evaporated. The photographer of this album is unknown, but the 1909 survey team may have included H.R. Robbins, H.P.M. Birkinbine, Steve Sheldon, and Gus Klaney, all of whom were involved in a later survey of the route. |
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Alaskan landscape as seen looking west from survey station 138, Alaska Midland Railway, Alaska, 1909 |
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Alaskan landscape as seen looking west from survey station 138, Alaska Midland Railway, Alaska, 1909 |
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Alaskan landscape as seen looking west from survey station 138, Alaska Midland Railway, Alaska, 1909 |
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Alaskan landscape as seen looking west from survey station 138, Alaska Midland Railway, Alaska, 1909 |
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Alaskan landscape as seen looking west from survey station 138, Alaska Midland Railway, Alaska, 1909 |
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alaskan landscape as seen looking west from survey station 138, alaska midland railway, alaska, 1909 |
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Bering Strait Skagway Alaska Siberia Yukon |
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University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division Alaska Midland Railway photograph album. PH Coll 230 |
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Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection AWC3932 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/3089 |
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