People near a Yakutat & Southern Railroad train, Libby, McNeill & Libby cannery, Yakutat, Alaska, between 1930 and 1939
The railroad was used to haul materials to and from the Yakutat cannery. Between 1940 and 1941, the U.S. Government used it to haul materials while constructing a nearby airfield and garrison. PH Coll 1033.322 Built in 1905 by Stimson, the Yakutat plant was purchased by Libby, McNeill & Libby in...
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| Format: | Still Image |
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1930
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| Online Access: | http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/alaskawcanada/id/5170 |
| Summary: | The railroad was used to haul materials to and from the Yakutat cannery. Between 1940 and 1941, the U.S. Government used it to haul materials while constructing a nearby airfield and garrison. PH Coll 1033.322 Built in 1905 by Stimson, the Yakutat plant was purchased by Libby, McNeill & Libby in 1913. It was operated by LM&L until 1951, at which point it was purchased by the Bellingham Canning Company of Bellingham, Washington. Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2013 |
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