Alaska Road Commission

Cookman Collection #1

August 1936

This summer image shows a cat tractor in foreground towing a scraper grading machine to the right over a slightly muddy road. Following immediately behind is a light-colored car sporting an A. R. R. C. license plate. The cat driver is looking backward as another man stands talking with the car driver. A third man stands farther back along the road. A passenger in the back seat of the car leans out the window and a black dog walks beside the car. A heavily vegetated mountainside rises immediately from the road behind the vehicles and people. This scene illustrates how anxious people were to drive the new roads, even to the point of following behind the machinery still building them.

Near Palmer, Alaska

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

Road-75L#25x-Coo