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1936WRCAM30008Seattle: Alaska Homestake Gold Mining Co 1936. 8pp. plus folding map. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Both wrappers detached. Internally clean. Very good. Prospectus of this well-financed Alaskan mining company with numerous statistics regarding cost of operation and potential yield. The map perfectly traced from the original illustrates the Bluff Quartz claims region in which the company sought to operate. An interesting overview of this large-scale operation. Not in Tourville nor on OCLC. Alaska Homestake Gold Mining Co unknown books
1988Q-0899091865Alaska Publishing Properties 1988-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alaska Publishing Properties paperback
0882401599New. paperback. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. paperback
1981CCB4174Alaska Northwest Books 1981-06-28. paperback. Acceptable. 14x10x0. Cover is well worn but intact. Binding is loose and starting to come unglued. Still a good copy. Pages are clean and unmarked. Alaska Northwest Books paperback
20093925Alaska Editions 2009. Showing 21 international artist photographers with images printed using vegetable inks. Limited to 333 copies worldwide hand numbered. Large format book c. 36 x 28.5 cms. original quarter black velvet over printed boards all edges gilt. One of only 333 copies. Alaska Editions hardcover
2004Q-1592285686Lyons Press 2004-07-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Lyons Press paperback
1892154137.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
3924Showing 21 international artist photographers with images printed using vegetable inks. Limited to 1000 copies worldwide hand numbered. Large format printing 48 x 28 cms white printed paper wrappers open stitch spine. Alaska Editions Spring-Summer 2008. unknown
0882401572New. paperback. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. paperback
1982Q-0882401572Alaska Geographic Society 1982-02-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alaska Geographic Society paperback
2002Q-1585745855The Lyons Press 2002-10-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! The Lyons Press hardcover
189234104Wash D.C: GPO 1892. First Edition. 72pp. Original printed wrappers. This annual report omitted by Wickersham. Much on stock raising agriculture commerce the Seal Islands Fish and fisheries the whaling fleet Native Americans etc GPO unknown books
1931313016Brockton Mass: Harold C. Keith 1931. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Text in two columns. 28 pp. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 7 inches. Wood grain wrappers with pictorial onlay text gathered with cord. Cover onlay creased with a few old tape ghosts ink notation to front blank Goodspeed sales receipt 1957 bookplate of Stephen Ellsworth Clow and Ruth Hazen Clow. Green half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. Text in two columns. 28 pp. 1 vols. 10-1/4 x 7 inches. ONLY COPY. Well written and nicely illustrated privately printed account of an Alaska hunting expedition. The party of four organized by H. Wendell Endicott comprised Endicott George Perry Latham Reed and Harold C. Keith whose diary for 14 August to 7 October 1930 is printed here. Latham Reed Sr. and Gen. R. E. Wood joined the party for the first stage of the journey to Big Delta. <br/>The hunting began on 24 August when a herd of caribou passed across the road in front of their car. Mr. Collins assistant district attorney at Fairbanks" stepped out and showed us how to shoot by dropping a big caribou on the first shot."<br/><br/>Twenty-one miles up the road from Big Delta the party left Mr. Collins' car and joined their crew of 8 and 24 horses and began their trip. They hunted bear and moose and caribou and sheep near the Gerstle River and Elting Creek and Jarvis encountered heavy snow saw the northern lights and completed a large loop back to Twenty-Six Mile Cabin during their stay.<br/><br/>Endicott 1880-1954 was author of Adventures with Rod and Harpoon in the Florida Keys. Harold C. Keith Amherst class of 1908 and Endicott were both shoe manufacturers in Massachusetts. Keith was president of the George E. Keith Co. in Brockton<br/><br/>The only other copy of this book recorded is a photocopy in the Candace Waugaman Collection at the Rasmuson Library University of Alaska Fairbanks<br/><br/>RARE. Not in OCLC not in Heller Biscotti Harold C. Keith unknown books
188634102Wash D.C.: McGill 1886. First edition. 13pp. Original printed wrappers very nice copy. Rare. Not in Wickersham Tourville or Ricks McGill unknown books
0267900198.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
4499KODIAK ALASKA HUNTING PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVE. An archive of nearly 100 black and white photographs emanating from a men’s hunting trip to Kodiak Alaska about 1950. There are images of men with fishing rods and rifles and dead bears crabs fish moose and seals. Some photographs show the men inside the cabin relaxing reading sleeping and cooking. There are also photographs of the early planes that brought tourists Alaskan scenery and small Alaskan towns. The images are in three sizes 5†x 7†5†x 3†and 2 ½†x 4 and all are in fine condition with minor faults such as chipped corners. A fine frontier photography archive. unknown books
2002Q-1574718142Creative Teaching Press 2002-03-27. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Creative Teaching Press paperback
2002Q-1574718150CREATIVE TEACHING PRESS 2002-03-27. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! CREATIVE TEACHING PRESS paperback
SONG1591981247Creative Teaching Press 0000-00-00. paperback. Used: Good. 9.00x0.25x11.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Creative Teaching Press paperback
1942218151942. Photograph archive circa 1920s-1944 documenting the construction of the Alaska Highway and related military infrastructure during World War II. The material records wartime military logistics and infrastructure development through photographs of road construction engineering operations heavy machinery and military transport routes in Alaska and western Canada during the war. The photographs include terrain modification machinery deployment bridge construction and coordinated labor by military and civilian crews working under wartime conditions.<br /> <br /> Archive comprises 30 black-and-white photographs including approximately 21 captioned images issued by the Public Roads Administration and War Information Board dating from circa 1942-1944 alongside 10 earlier vernacular snapshots from the 1920s-1930s. Sizes range from approximately 2.5 x 1.5 inches to 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Official photographs depict graded roadways cutting through mountainous and forested terrain heavy machinery including tractors and graders clearing timber and earth and crews working in challenging conditions such as permafrost excavation. Several images show pontoon bridges early roadbeds and military vehicles including jeeps and convoys positioned along newly constructed routes. Captions reference wartime labor and engineering activity. Vernacular photographs depict earlier regional life including individuals traveling by sled posing with fish working in sawmills and operating equipment. Additional scenes include a Chinese barber shaving a client and frontier couples posed outdoors with handwritten verso captions referencing locations such as Juneau and Valdez.<br /> <br /> The photographs record the rapid development of the Alaska Highway following the strategic urgency created by World War II particularly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and military concerns in the Aleutian region. Official photographs focus on wartime infrastructure projects while the vernacular photographs record prewar labor and daily life in Alaska and the Yukon. The archive includes military construction transportation systems sawmill labor travel and regional commercial activity before and during wartime expansion. Light curling and handling wear to vernacular photographs; minor edge wear and occasional markings to official prints; overall very good condition. A visual archive of wartime engineering and northern frontier life during a period of military expansion. unknown
1943217811943. Civilian construction labor photo album documenting on the Alaska-Canada Military Highway during World War II one of the largest emergency infrastructure projects undertaken in North America during the war. The material records wartime military logistics federal civilian contracting and frontier transportation construction through photographs official permits military certifications and worker inscriptions connected to the rapid building of the ALCAN Highway in 1942-1943. Compiled by civilian laborer Paul Cecil Pemble an employee of Ferguson-Diell Construction Company the album connects private contractors federal agencies and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the construction of a strategic military supply route linking the contiguous United States to Alaska following Japan's Aleutian Islands campaign. The archive provides primary-source evidence for wartime infrastructure mobilization civilian labor under military authority and the logistical expansion of defense systems in the North American Arctic frontier.<br /> <br /> Oblong string-tied photo album in original painted suede leather covers titled Alaska - Where the North Begins with embossed and hand-colored totemic decoration. Contains approximately 66 silver gelatin photographs ranging in size from approximately 4.5 x 3.25 inches to 10 x 8 inches alongside multiple official documents licenses permits correspondence and autograph pages. Included documents identify Paul Cecil Pemble as a civilian heavy equipment operator employed on the Alaska Highway project. These include a Public Roads Administration license issued under the Federal Works Agency dated June 29 1943; a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers certification dated August 4 1943 signed by First Lieutenant Colin L. Park authorizing operation of trucks tractors and wheeled scrapers; and an Alcan Military Highway Command permit dated August 19 1943 authorizing travel on the restricted military roadway. A typed letter from Tok Junction dated October 8 1943 confirms the extension of Pemble's Selective Service deferment due to essential wartime labor. Several opening pages titled "Memory Leaves" contain approximately sixty signatures and inscriptions from fellow workers many identifying hometowns in Iowa and including humorous remarks and nicknames such as "Cook" "Butch" and "Alaska Thunderbolt." The photographs extensively document construction activity and camp life including bulldozers graders cranes timber bridge scaffolding military truck convoys wrecked vehicles stranded in ditches muddy roadbeds and large encampments of prefabricated structures. Multiple images show men constructing river crossings operating machinery and posing in work clothes beside heavy equipment. Additional photographs depict interior bunkhouses mess hall scenes with workers gathered around tables and a large group portrait of more than fifty civilian laborers posed before a treeline. Wildlife and recreation also appear throughout the album including black bears scavenging through refuse fishing scenes with large catches displayed by workers dogs resting beside snowy roads and Pemble's trailer quarters attached to the back of a truck. The final pages include panoramic camp views and directional signpost photographs listing construction companies and distances to Fairbanks Whitehorse and multiple contractor camps along the route.<br /> <br /> The album records the logistical effort required to construct the Alaska Highway across remote and environmentally severe terrain during wartime emergency conditions. Built in response to fears of Japanese expansion into Alaska and the North Pacific the highway became a critical military supply corridor linking airfields fuel depots transport infrastructure and defense installations across Alaska and western Canada. The album focuses on civilian laborers operating within military-controlled systems including contract workers represented through photographs permits deferment documents and personal inscriptions. The combination of photographs permits deferment documents and personal inscriptions records daily life labor conditions and federal wartime administration on the ALCAN project. Photographs mounted cleanly to black paper leaves with corner tabs; occasional light creasing and minor wear to several prints. Leather covers lightly rubbed but structurally sound and visually bright. Overall very good condition. A documentary archive of civilian wartime labor and military infrastructure construction during one of the most ambitious engineering projects of the Second World War. unknown
1390937305.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1396409998.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
A9781344481724Hardback. New. hardcover
026009613X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
