The Arthur Steen Lyon collection of 92 photographs contains Alaska scenes from a larger collection of photos Mr. Lyon took while employed as a civil engineer in southeast Alaska and throughout the United States. These images include the Alaska Central Railroad and the Copper River & Northwestern in 1905 1906, surveyors, railroad construction, Copper River Natives, the Copper River, the Fairbanks to Valdez trail (later the Richardson Highway), and southeast Alaska scenics. Captions are taken from Arthur Lyon's descriptions which were written on the back of the images or on the album pages. Supplied information is in brackets. Some of the photographs were taken by Mr. Lyon's friend, "La Foy." Other photographers noted in the collection include Case and Draper and E.A. Hegg.