Alaska Road Commission

Cookman Collection #1

April 25, 1929

This image is of a 1920's vintage dump truck spreading a load of gravel over a matt of small diameter brush as this Trunk Road section is constructed over soft ground. A considerable amount of this brush matt is visible, ready to be covered by pit-run gravel. A man at left stands ready to assist if the dumping load gets jammed or to remove oversized rocks from the roadway. Posts of a barbed wire fence are visible on the far side of the roadway at the edge of a large grove of small cottonwood trees.

Near Matanuska, Alaska

Black & White Paper Print, 3-1/4" x 5"3/4"

Road-35K#4x-Coo