Photos from: Alaska Railroad centennial celebrations




Alaska State Library - Historical Collections/Wickersham State Historic Site collection of Alaska photographs, 1882-1930s.

President Harding drives in the golden spike that completed the Alaska Railroad, Nenana, July 15, 1923. Weeks later after he left Alaska, Harding died-some say from bad seafood eaten in either Haines or Skagway, but most opine a stroke.



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