Group of people on railway push cars on the Alaska-Canada Railway tracks, Seward, Alaska, circa 1905
Caption on image: Picnic Party on A.C.RY, Seward, Alaska. L.N.C. Filed in Alaska--Cities--Seward Seward is situated on Resurrection Bay on the southeast coast of the Kenai Peninsula, 125 highway miles south of Anchorage. It lies at the foot of Mount Marathon, and is the gateway to the Kenai Fjords N...
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ftuwashingtonlib:oai:cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:alaskawcanada/375 2023-05-15T17:04:38+02:00 Group of people on railway push cars on the Alaska-Canada Railway tracks, Seward, Alaska, circa 1905 University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division United States--Alaska--Seward 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. 2004. http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/375 unknown Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection AWC0283 http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/375 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 Photograph Collection Railroad handcars--Alaska--Seward Railroad tracks--Alaska--Seward Group portraits Railroads--Track Photograph; image ftuwashingtonlib 2017-12-31T14:02:48Z Caption on image: Picnic Party on A.C.RY, Seward, Alaska. L.N.C. Filed in Alaska--Cities--Seward Seward is situated on Resurrection Bay on the southeast coast of the Kenai Peninsula, 125 highway miles south of Anchorage. It lies at the foot of Mount Marathon, and is the gateway to the Kenai Fjords National Park. Resurrection Bay was named in 1792 by Russian fur trader and explorer Alexander Baranof. While sailing from Kodiak to Yakutat, he found unexpected shelter in this bay for a storm. He named the Bay Resurrection because it was the Russian Sunday of the Resurrection. The City of Seward was named for U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, 1861-69, who negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia during the Lincoln administration. In the 1890s, Capt. Frank Lowell arrived with his family. In 1903, John and Frank Ballaine and a group of settlers arrived to begin construction of a railroad. Seward became an incorporated City in 1912. The Alaska Railroad was constructed between 1915 and 1923, and Seward developed as the ocean terminus and supply center. By 1960, Seward was the largest community on the Peninsula. Tsunamis generated after the 1964 earthquake destroyed the railroad terminal and killed several residents. As an ice-free harbor, Seward has become an important supply center for Interior Alaska. Other/Unknown Material Kodiak Yakutat Alaska University of Washington, Seattle: Digital Collections Anchorage Canada |
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Caption on image: Picnic Party on A.C.RY, Seward, Alaska. L.N.C. Filed in Alaska--Cities--Seward Seward is situated on Resurrection Bay on the southeast coast of the Kenai Peninsula, 125 highway miles south of Anchorage. It lies at the foot of Mount Marathon, and is the gateway to the Kenai Fjords National Park. Resurrection Bay was named in 1792 by Russian fur trader and explorer Alexander Baranof. While sailing from Kodiak to Yakutat, he found unexpected shelter in this bay for a storm. He named the Bay Resurrection because it was the Russian Sunday of the Resurrection. The City of Seward was named for U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, 1861-69, who negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia during the Lincoln administration. In the 1890s, Capt. Frank Lowell arrived with his family. In 1903, John and Frank Ballaine and a group of settlers arrived to begin construction of a railroad. Seward became an incorporated City in 1912. The Alaska Railroad was constructed between 1915 and 1923, and Seward developed as the ocean terminus and supply center. By 1960, Seward was the largest community on the Peninsula. Tsunamis generated after the 1964 earthquake destroyed the railroad terminal and killed several residents. As an ice-free harbor, Seward has become an important supply center for Interior Alaska. |
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Group of people on railway push cars on the Alaska-Canada Railway tracks, Seward, Alaska, circa 1905 |
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Group of people on railway push cars on the Alaska-Canada Railway tracks, Seward, Alaska, circa 1905 |
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Group of people on railway push cars on the Alaska-Canada Railway tracks, Seward, Alaska, circa 1905 |
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Group of people on railway push cars on the Alaska-Canada Railway tracks, Seward, Alaska, circa 1905 |
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Group of people on railway push cars on the Alaska-Canada Railway tracks, Seward, Alaska, circa 1905 |
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group of people on railway push cars on the alaska-canada railway tracks, seward, alaska, circa 1905 |
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