GOLD RUSH -- ALASKA]. -- HERNING, O.G. Central Alaska. At right: Herning's Map of Central Alaska showing Gold and Coal Fields, Trails, Boat Routes, Etc. Compiled from Prospectors and Native Sketch Maps, and Six Years Experience in the Field . N.p., 1906.
GOLD RUSH -- ALASKA]. -- HERNING, O.G. Central Alaska. At right: Herning's Map of Central Alaska showing Gold and Coal Fields, Trails, Boat Routes, Etc. Compiled from Prospectors and Native Sketch Maps, and Six Years Experience in the Field . N.p., 1906. Lithographed map printed in blue (782 x 497 mm). With original printed wrapper titled Prospectors Map of Central Alasa Including the McKinley gold Fields Agricultural Land A.C. Ry. Survey and various routes to the mines. Matted, framed and glazed. Provenance : Thomas W. Streeter (his sale part VI, Parke-Bernet, 23 April 1969, lot 3619). FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE AND DETAILED PROSPECTOR'S MAP OF CENTRAL ALASKA, ANNOTATED IN PENCIL IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. Penciled notes indicate ownership by a prospector in the field who noted promising locations, correct drainages and additional tributaries to streams. On the inside of the wrapper, this same hand has made notes "Watsons group -- R.R., Wheatley at Chickallon, Capt. Nicols. -- Kings. Jeter. -- this side of Hicks -- prof. anthacite [sic] Towsend with Jeter has been in Tolkutna. P.R. Backus. J.H. Riggs." The various gold discoveries of 1898 through 1905 are shown and the region where Anchorage was to be founded in 1914 is mapped in detail. This is a particularly early map to show Fairbanks and the proposed route of the Alaska Central Railway. Aligned in an east-west line are Mts. McKinley, Forager and Roosevelt (now Russell). The area covered extends from Fairbanks in the north to the south tip of Kenai Peninsula, Valdez in the east and the Kuskokwin River on the west. Not in Wickersham. Eberstadt 130:14; Streeter sale VI:3619.
GOLD RUSH -- ALASKA]. -- HERNING, O.G. Central Alaska. At right: Herning's Map of Central Alaska showing Gold and Coal Fields, Trails, Boat Routes, Etc. Compiled from Prospectors and Native Sketch Maps, and Six Years Experience in the Field . N.p., 1906.
GOLD RUSH -- ALASKA]. -- HERNING, O.G. Central Alaska. At right: Herning's Map of Central Alaska showing Gold and Coal Fields, Trails, Boat Routes, Etc. Compiled from Prospectors and Native Sketch Maps, and Six Years Experience in the Field . N.p., 1906. Lithographed map printed in blue (782 x 497 mm). With original printed wrapper titled Prospectors Map of Central Alasa Including the McKinley gold Fields Agricultural Land A.C. Ry. Survey and various routes to the mines. Matted, framed and glazed. Provenance : Thomas W. Streeter (his sale part VI, Parke-Bernet, 23 April 1969, lot 3619). FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE AND DETAILED PROSPECTOR'S MAP OF CENTRAL ALASKA, ANNOTATED IN PENCIL IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. Penciled notes indicate ownership by a prospector in the field who noted promising locations, correct drainages and additional tributaries to streams. On the inside of the wrapper, this same hand has made notes "Watsons group -- R.R., Wheatley at Chickallon, Capt. Nicols. -- Kings. Jeter. -- this side of Hicks -- prof. anthacite [sic] Towsend with Jeter has been in Tolkutna. P.R. Backus. J.H. Riggs." The various gold discoveries of 1898 through 1905 are shown and the region where Anchorage was to be founded in 1914 is mapped in detail. This is a particularly early map to show Fairbanks and the proposed route of the Alaska Central Railway. Aligned in an east-west line are Mts. McKinley, Forager and Roosevelt (now Russell). The area covered extends from Fairbanks in the north to the south tip of Kenai Peninsula, Valdez in the east and the Kuskokwin River on the west. Not in Wickersham. Eberstadt 130:14; Streeter sale VI:3619.
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