Alaska Road Commission

Cookman Collection #2

November 14, 1939

Image shows a large pond of muddy water in immediate foreground with a dragline excavator machine on the pond's high bank above at right. The excavator's large bucket is suspended from its long boom as it is being dumped on shore to empty soil scooped from the pond. A small cat tractor sits beside the excavator. At far left middle ground another cat is visible, apparently dragging away the excavated soil with a scraper machine as indicated by the photo caption. Snow-covered flat ground is visible in middle ground beyond the excavation and a brush-covered bluff is faintly visible in background.

Anchorage, Alaska

Black & White Paper Print, 3-1/2" x 5-1/2"

Anc-Spenard Canal#1x-Coo