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[edit]English: First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry (at center right), with Copper River and Northwestern Railway ferry landings visible at foreground and background, Miles Glacier, Alaska, July 9, 1909 ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry (at center right), with Copper River and Northwestern Railway ferry landings visible at foreground and background, Miles Glacier, Alaska, July 9, 1909 |
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English: Caption on image: First Trip of Miles Glacier Ferry July 9. '09 C.R. & N.W. Ry Handwritten on verso of image is a letter from Livingston Wernecke, a geologist and UW graduate who appears to have been working on the construction of the C.R. & N.W. Railway, to UW Professor Milnor Roberts: Dear Prof. Roberts, This card is one of my own manufacture of an object of my own invention, both drawings and construction ... has been my chief worry for the 4 1/2 mos. when the lake was not frozen over. Because of floating ice bergs, the cost of maintenance was 1/3 of the original cost. Best wishes for a merry Christmas and a Happy year of 1910. [signed] Livingston Wernecke. Filed in Alaska--Cities/Location--Miles GlacierThe Copper River and Northwestern, or C.R. and N.W., Railway was built between 1909 and 1912 to serve the Kennicott copper mining area. Despite early claims that C.R. & N.W. stood for "Can't Run and Never Will," the railroad operated successfully until it was abandoned when large scale mining ended in 1938. [Source: http://www.nps.gov/wrst/mccarthyroadgeology.htm ] Livingston Wernecke...was an assistant in Mining during his undergraduate years[at the University of Washington]. Wernecke later became famous in Juneau gold mining, and found jobs for over 15 of Washington's graduates in Mining Engineering at the Treadwell complex of gold mines; later Wernecke was a consulting geologist for the famous Alaska Juneau mine. [Source: depts.washington.edu/mse/about/ docs/Centennial_A%20History%20of%20MSE.pdf
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English: United States--Alaska--Miles Glacier |
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Date | Taken on 9 July 1909 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 3.5 in (88.9 mm); width: 5.5 in (13.9 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,3.5U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,5.5U218593 |
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institution QS:P195,Q219563 |
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Order Number InfoField | AWC1702 |
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