Street car. Skagway. Skagway district, Southeastern Alaska region, Alaska. 1941.
Dates
Date Taken
1941-06
Summary
Album caption: Main street of Skagway, Alaska. Taken from the station platform. Handwritten notes on album caption: Broadway. SE Alaska Region, Skagway district. 1941. Index card: Main street on Skagway. Taken from the station platform. Skagway district, Southeastern Alaska region, Alaska. 1941. Additional information received by email from Karl Gurcke, Historian, National Park Service, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Skagway, AK, "I knew Mertie was in Skagway in 1941 based on dates in several other photos of his in your collection. The photo is by the way of Broadway looking north. This is the street that the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad ran up from 1898 to around 1943. We also have a Main Street but that's [...]
Summary
Album caption: Main street of Skagway, Alaska. Taken from the station platform.
Handwritten notes on album caption: Broadway. SE Alaska Region, Skagway district. 1941.
Index card: Main street on Skagway. Taken from the station platform. Skagway district, Southeastern Alaska region, Alaska. 1941.
Additional information received by email from Karl Gurcke, Historian, National Park Service, Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, Skagway, AK, "I knew Mertie was in Skagway in 1941 based on dates in several other photos of his in your collection. The photo is by the way of Broadway looking north. This is the street that the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad ran up from 1898 to around 1943. We also have a Main Street but that's two blocks to the west and doesn't have a railroad track on it. The photograph was taken looking north and is just in front the railroad's Broadway Depot. This is where passengers would board the train for their journey north to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. The cross street is Second Avenue right in front. Martin Itjen's Skagway Street Car Number 2 is located on the east side (right hand side) of Broadway just behind the darker colored auto. It is the larger vehicle with light colored horizontal and vertical stripes. It looks like there are two people beside the vehicle talking to each other. The Skagway Street Car was built by Martin Itjen, an early tourist promoter on a Ford truck chassis in 1930. In the summer he would give tourists a tour around town and out to the Gold Rush Cemetery where some of the interesting gold rush characters are buried."
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