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First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry (at center right), with Copper River and Northwestern Railway ferry landings visible at foreground and background, Miles Glacier, Alaska, July 9, 1909
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| Title | First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry (at center right), with Copper River and Northwestern Railway ferry landings visible at foreground and background, Miles Glacier, Alaska, July 9, 1909 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Date | n.d. |
| Notes | Caption on image: First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry July 9. '09 C.R. & N.W. Ry
Handwritten on verso of image is a letter from Livingston Wernecke, a geologist and UW graduate who appears to have been working on the construction of the C.R. & N.W. Railway, to UW Professor Milnor Roberts: Dear Prof. Roberts, This card is one of my own manufacture of an object of my own invention, both drawings and construction... has been my chief worry for the 4 1/2 mos. when the lake was not frozen over. Because of floating ice bergs, the cost of maintenance was 1/3 of the original cost. Best wishes for a merry Christmas and a Happy year of 1910. [signed] Livingston Wernecke.
Filed in Alaska--Cities/Location--Miles Glacier |
| Contextual Notes | The Copper River and Northwestern, or C.R. and N.W., Railway was built between 1909 and 1912 to serve the Kennicott copper mining area. Despite early claims that C.R. & N.W. stood for "Can't Run and Never Will" the railroad operated successfully until it was abandoned when large scale mining ended in 1938. [Source: http://www.nps.gov/wrst/mccarthyroadgeology.htm ]
Livingston Wernecke...was an assistant in Mining during his undergraduate years[at the University of Washington]. Wernecke later became famous in Juneau gold mining, and found jobs for over 15 of Washington's graduates in Mining Engineering at the Treadwell complex of gold mines; later Wernecke was a consulting geologist for the famous Alaska Juneau mine. [Source: depts.washington.edu/mse/about/ docs/Centennial_A%20History%20of%20MSE.pdf ] |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Piers & wharves--Alaska; Mountains--Alaska; Railroad ferries--Alaska |
| Location Depicted | United States--Alaska--Miles Glacier |
| Digital Collection | Alaska, Western Canada and United States Collection
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| Order Number | AWC1702
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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 | Postcard Collection |
| Object Type | Postcard |
| Physical Description | 3.5 x 5.5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from an original photographic postcard using a Microtek ArtixScan 1800f at 110 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2005. |
| Restrictions | For information on permissions for use and reproductions please visit UW Libraries Special Collections Reproduction & Use page
http://content.lib.washington.edu/sc-use.html |
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