Alaska Road Commission

Cookman Collection #1

February 23, 1938

This winter view looking up the snow-covered road shows a dump truck coming toward the camera with the thawing boiler in tow. Only the stack of the boiler is visible behind the truck with steam or smoke exiting above. The road is cut into a steep hillside covered with heavy forest on both sides. The cut bank at right exhibits places of ground water glaciation descending into the ditch, causing the need for the thawing activity to keep ice from building up and forming on the roadway.

Between Anchorage and Palmer, Alaska

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

Road-75L#39x-Coo