Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.
Alaska's Big Year Alaska's Big Year INQUIRIES at travel agencies and advance bookings with steamship lines indicate that Alaska will have a great tourist season this year. Transcontinental railroads are cooperating to increase the natural interest in the northern territory by bringing it t...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/102117 2023-05-15T17:23:59+02:00 Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: 1936-03-04 Alaska's Big Year 1936-03-04 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/102117 English eng nwh-sh-14-20-47 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/102117 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History Alaska Box 14 Alaska Tourists Visitors Northwest Pacific--History--20th Century Text Clippings 1936 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:23:32Z Alaska's Big Year Alaska's Big Year INQUIRIES at travel agencies and advance bookings with steamship lines indicate that Alaska will have a great tourist season this year. Transcontinental railroads are cooperating to increase the natural interest in the northern territory by bringing it to the attention of prospective summer travelers. Tourists are awakening to the fact that the Alaska trip offers much in way of scenic interest, comfortable travel and natural curiosities. The journey by way of the inside passage to the Northland has no counterpart in the world. Among steamship men it is predicted that Alaska will have more visitors THIS YEAR than at any time since the great gold strikes at Fairbanks and at Nome, a generation ago. At the height of the travel season which they expect to be reached in June and July, there will be daily sailings of freight or passenger ships from Seattle. In anticipation of the increase the Alaska Steamship Company has added two, large passenger and cargo vessels to its fleet. Text Nome Alaska Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Fairbanks Pacific |
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Alaska's Big Year Alaska's Big Year INQUIRIES at travel agencies and advance bookings with steamship lines indicate that Alaska will have a great tourist season this year. Transcontinental railroads are cooperating to increase the natural interest in the northern territory by bringing it to the attention of prospective summer travelers. Tourists are awakening to the fact that the Alaska trip offers much in way of scenic interest, comfortable travel and natural curiosities. The journey by way of the inside passage to the Northland has no counterpart in the world. Among steamship men it is predicted that Alaska will have more visitors THIS YEAR than at any time since the great gold strikes at Fairbanks and at Nome, a generation ago. At the height of the travel season which they expect to be reached in June and July, there will be daily sailings of freight or passenger ships from Seattle. In anticipation of the increase the Alaska Steamship Company has added two, large passenger and cargo vessels to its fleet. |
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