Seward, Alaska, 1915 – Vintage Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Seward, Alaska, 1915, preserved in this historic image. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Seward, Alaska, 1915
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Seward, Alaska, in 1915 sat at the head of Resurrection Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, a town built on the shipping trade that moved freight, fish, and mining goods in and out of the territory. That year it became the starting point for the Alaska Railroad, whose construction Congress had authorized in 1914 and whose first work began at Seward in May 1915. The line was meant to reach the interior, carrying coal and supplies toward the Tanana and Susitna country and to Fairbanks, so the town's docks and rail yards were suddenly central to the territory's hopes. Residents, many of them merchants, dockworkers, and railroad hands, knew Seward as the ice-free gateway to Alaska's interior, and they watched the new rail grade and the waterfront with a sense that their small port was about to grow.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Creator | sheelor, f. w. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Alaska |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,069 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Seward, Alaska, 1915 |
| Reference | AK Seward 1915 |
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