File:Group of people on railway push cars on the Alaska-Canada Railway tracks, Seward, Alaska, circa 1905 (AL+CA 375).jpg
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English: Group of people on railway push cars on the Alaska-Canada Railway tracks, Seward, Alaska, circa 1905 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: Group of people on railway push cars on the Alaska-Canada Railway tracks, Seward, Alaska, circa 1905 |
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English: Caption on image: Picnic Party on A.C.RY, Seward, Alaska. L.N.C. Filed in Alaska--Cities--Seward Seward is situated on Resurrection Bay on the southeast coast of the Kenai Peninsula, 125 highway miles south of Anchorage. It lies at the foot of Mount Marathon, and is the gateway to the Kenai Fjords National Park. Resurrection Bay was named in 1792 by Russian fur trader and explorer Alexander Baranof. While sailing from Kodiak to Yakutat, he found unexpected shelter in this bay for a storm. He named the Bay Resurrection because it was the Russian Sunday of the Resurrection. The City of Seward was named for U.S. Secretary of State William Seward, 1861-69, who negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia during the Lincoln administration. In the 1890s, Capt. Frank Lowell arrived with his family. In 1903, John and Frank Ballaine and a group of settlers arrived to begin construction of a railroad. Seward became an incorporated City in 1912. The Alaska Railroad was constructed between 1915 and 1923, and Seward developed as the ocean terminus and supply center. By 1960, Seward was the largest community on the Peninsula. Tsunamis generated after the 1964 earthquake destroyed the railroad terminal and killed several residents. As an ice-free harbor, Seward has become an important supply center for Interior Alaska.
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Depicted place | Seward, Alaska | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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circa 1905 date QS:P571,+1905-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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Order Number InfoField | AWC0283 |
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