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Snow covered buildings at Pleasant Camp near Haines, Alaska, Alaska Midland Railway survey, 1909
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| Title | Snow covered buildings at Pleasant Camp near Haines, Alaska, Alaska Midland Railway survey, 1909 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | 1909 |
| Notes | 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.
Alaska/British Columbia border is noted on photograph
PH Coll 230.22a |
| Contextual Notes | 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. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Border stations--Alaska; Border stations--British Columbia; Alaska--Boundaries; British Columbia--Boundaries; Pleasant Camp (Alaska and B.C.) |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Pleasant Camp |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC3897
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| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Alaska Midland Railway photograph album. PH Coll 230 |
| Object Type | Photograph |
| Digital Reproduction Information | 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. |
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