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Alaska Excursions. Season 1916. Totem Pole Route Pacific Coast Steamship Co.

Alaska Excursions. Season 1916. Totem Pole Route

Pacific Coast Steamship Co.

Other works by Pacific Coast Steamship Co.

Publication: Privately printed, 1916, NP

9" x 4" in cream pictorial wrappers with picture of totem pole at edge of front wrapper. 16 pp., foreword, map, illustrations, schedule, diagram. Information on the Inside Passage, totem poles, the gold mines, the cities of Alaska, the Indians, the mountains, the midnight sun, the glaciers, hunting, fishing, the steamers, etc. Information on side trips to Lake Atlin, Dawson, Fairbanks, White Pass and the Grand Lake Circle, with the side trips ranging in price from $5 to $280. Photograph at top of every page; a proposed sailing schedule for favorable conditions; 2-page diagram of hurricane, upper, promenade and shelter decks and also showing pricing for rooms; etc. Cream-colored wrappers evenly soiled and rubbed at spine, crease to bottom corner and edge of rear wrapper along with tiny closed tear and crease to one page showing deck diagram but not affecting text or diagram. Still very good and a very interesting tourist's booklet with much valuable information.

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