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Historic Photograph Collections:
Alaska & the Yukon


Alaska Highway Photo Album
About 25 photos taken by Raymond Paul Anderson, Sr., who worked on the bridge construction crews.

Alaska Highway Picture Gallery
Nice slide show of 24 historic images, although they are low-quality, being obviously scanned from a book.

The Alaska State Library
The first on-line collection of historic Northern photographs is still one of the best.

British Columbia Archives
Hundreds of Yukon/Alaska-related photos are on-line, and the inventory of this great site is searchable.

Golden Dreams: The Quest for the Klondike
A beautifully-designed site with 25 photos of the Klondike rush as seen through the lens of Asahel Curtis.

Harriman Expedition
The complete private souvenir album created collectively by the members of the scientific expedition along the Alaskan coast in 1899 - hundreds of images.

Museum of History & Industry
A search of their photo collection came up with 96 "Alaska" and 69 "Yukon" photos - some great stuff, from reindeer in Nome to sternwheelers and the Seattle docks.

Northwest Territories Archives
There are hundreds of photos of Inuit life, whaling, Herschel Island, Mounted Police patrols and much more at this beautifully-designed site.

Bruce Pryor's WP&YR Page
Bruce has a great collection of WP&YR equipment photos, both historic and recent, for serious railfans.


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