Alaska Road Commission

Cookman Collection

October 7, 1934

This image shows the end of a section of road being carved, apparently with hand tools, from the toe of a slope at right at the edge of muskeg and scrub forest land at left. The foreground view includes the leveled roadbed in center, the cut bank at right and a thick group of small trees at left. Center middle ground features a lone man, wearing a head net and shoveling on a pile of dirt. Beside him, leaning on the cutbank wall, are several additional shovels, perhaps indicating that the rest of the crew is on a break. Patchy muskeg and scattered forest form the background.

Near Eklutna, Alaska

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

Road-75L#9x-Coo