Collection 2024.06 - Alaska Highway Construction Album

• Graphic material

134 photographs : b&w

Purchased from Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller in 2024. Tokerud had purchased the album from a bookseller in the United States who acquired it from the estate of a US contractor who worked on the project.

Photograph album contains 134 snapshots showcasing building activity, equipment, logging, and airplanes in British Columbia and the Yukon, taken during the building of the Alaska Highway in 1942. The photographer is unknown. Many of the photographs depict Fort St. John and Fort Nelson.

Some of the photographs are captioned as follows:

• Looking north at Fort St. John, B.C.
• P.R.A. Bellanea and Army Norseman sea-planes on Charley Lake near Fort St. John, B.C.
• Looking toward outlet of Muncho Lake from Float Plane
• Fort St. John, British Columbia. Canada
• Colonel Ingalls’ bridge across Liard River
• Post Office & Government Telegraph Office
• P.R.A. Camps at Fort St. John, B.C. looking N.E.
• Post Office & Government Telegraph Office - Fort St. John - 1942
• Army Ferry on Peace River near Taylor's Flats
• Looking west on Main Street, Fort St. John, B.C. May - 1942
• Looking southwest across Summit Lake
• Public Roads Administration Headquarters Buildings. Fort St. John, B.C. - April - 1942
• Looking southwest from south bank of Peace River from Old Highway near Taylor Flats, B.C.
• First Army Headquarters - Fort St. John, B.C. - 1942
• Beginnings of Fort Alcan - May 1942 - Fort St. John, B.C.
• Road between 101 and 157
• Other side Muncho Lake
• Big Black Bear
• Liard River, Canada
• Dog Sled. Muskwa River
• Temporary Bridge at Muskwa, B.C.
• Another bridge in British Columbia
• Above Fort Nelson, B.C. White spot in picture is the “moon”
• Mountains N-106
• Coughlin’s equipment at work west of Fort Nelson - Nov. - 1942
• Near Mile Post 175-N descending to shore of Muncho Lake
• First Fairbanks sign erected in Fort St. John. Apr. 1942
• Boat used to cross the Fort Nelson River at Fort Nelson
• Typical P.R.A. Engineers Camp at Mile 84-N
• Fort Alcan - near St. John. British Columbia. “1942.”
• Captain Hinze and Army beachcraft used on Army reconnaissance surveys for Alaska Highway
• Small single motored aircraft used by P.R.A. on Alaska Highway Reconnaissance flights forced down on Gravel Bar on the Laird [sic] River near Mile 313-N
• Near Mile 173-N looking at outlet of Muncho Lake
• Near Mile 145 N. Toad River looking downstream
• Looking southwest at Muncho Lake at Army operations on shore Pioneer Road. First tote road may be seen above.
• Hudson Bay Store at Dease Lake, end of truck portage from Telegraph Creek + Wrangell. Beginning of boat freighting to lower port
• Mile 104 n. Sugarfoot Lake
• Mile 104 N. Sugarfoot Lake
• Looking north from Mile 140 N. at Folding Mountains - approx. 8,000 ft high
• Army forces along Muncho Lake
• Malamute sled dog at Fort Nelson
• P.R.A. location. Engineers’ Camp near Mile 165-N
• Few miles west of Ft. St. John looking downstream at Peace River. Old Fort St. John. Buildings on near shore
• British Columbia Police Plane in Fort Nelson River at Fort Nelson, B.C.
• Few miles west of Fort St. John - Looking across Toad River at Little Folded Mountain near Mile 141
• Looking northwest at P.R.A. an Oakes Camp and Alcan Highway.
• Clouds after a rainstorm over Teslin Lake, Yukon Territory between Watson Lake and Whitehorse.
• Toad River and Big Folded Mountain near Mile 142 N
• Teslin Lake between Watson Lake & Whitehorse Y.K. The lake is 72 miles long
• Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
• Dept. of Transport Ferry on Peace River near Taylor Flats.
• Foothills east of Rocky Mountains between Watson Lake & Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
• Public Roads Administration (P.R.A.) Camp at Whitehorse, Y.K.
• Whitehorse end of the White Pass and Yukon Railway from Skagway, Alaska to Whitehorse, Y.K.
• Husky sled dog. Ft. St. John, B.C.
• Mile 103 N. Looking east at Army Camp at Mile 102 N. - Summit Lake
• Opening of new bridge on Sikanni River
• Peace River Bridge has now replaced this “Ferry” - Fort St. John, B.C
• Muskwa River new Fort Nelson, B.C.
• Bridge across the Muskwa River.
• View of mountains across flat between 101 - and 157
• Plane at Fort Nelson - Ft. Nelson River
• Moose Calves
• Suicide Hill - J 108. Now eliminated from Alaskan Highway
• Road Construction Equipment Center Boom - Bulldozer and Side Boom
• Center Boom. Taken at Water Line
• Early stages of road construction
• Bulldozing for the Highway
• Clearing the tinder for the Highway
• Convoy of trucks on Alaskan Highway
• Repair Camps off Highway
• Mud - Mud - Mud - Mud!