Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Seabees work in near 100 mile per hour winds and sub-freezing temperatures to put portable boilers into operation to supply heat to Navy housing aboard the U. S. Naval Station, Kodiak,...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from front. Men standing beside boilers in Alaska Engineering Commission Railway power plant, Anchorage, Alaska. From verso: "Ike Heffentrager, Maurice Scott." Further research indicates that Heffentrager did not arrive in Alaska until...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction on north end of railroad bridge over Hurricane Gulch, Alaska. Construction workers stand among rails and girders below left in front of boilers, while crane and...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction on railroad bridge over Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, with crane at end of bridge, tent to the right, and construction worker near ground level in center near smoking...
Title taken from front. View of steel railroad rails used as weight to hold railroad bridge during Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction on bridge over Hurricane Gulch, Alaska. Steel girders are piled near boilers at left. Also from...
Title from verso. Sign at left reads: "Samson Hardware Company, 'Samson' Hardware & Mining Machinery, [illegible] Pennsylvania Boilers American & Samson Hoists." At right, signs appear to advertise brand names: "Mobiloil", "Caterpillar", "The...
This photograph shows flood waters in North Turner Street near the Chena River. The sign for Samson Hardware store shows the original owners' names: "Brumbaugh Hamilton & Kellog." Below the owners' names is the wording:...
This photograph shows river ice on the north side of the Chena River in Fairbanks during the flood of 1911. Samson Hardware store is visible with it's sign showing the names of the original owners: Brumbaugh, Hamilton &...
Musher and small sled dog team of three dogs passing one adult onlooker with a few small children. Some buildings are visible in the background. From other related photographs in the collection, it is assumed this is on the...
Title from verso. Full verso caption reads: "NCCo. [indexer note: Northern Commercial Company] dock at St. Michael, note old river steamer boilers holding it up. Docking consists partially of ASSCo. [ indexer note: Alaska Steamship Company]...
Title drawn from verso Prospectors brought lumber, engines, and boilers ashore and built small steamboats to launch into Yukon River and its tributaries; tents along shore; boats in harbor; a man passes a pile of lumber
Title drawn from verso; verso notes shown below photograph Prospectors brought lumber, engines, and boilers ashore and built small steamboats to launch into Yukon River and its tributaries; tents along shore; boats in harbor; a man passes a...
Eight men, one woman gathered on roof. Left to right:
1. Myrven H. Sides, Deputy Collector of Customs
2. Governor George Parks
3. Steamboat Inspection Service Inspector of Hulls
4. John C. McBride, Collector of Customs & Custodian of...