Title from verso. View of a dog team standing on the ice on frozen Birch Lake. Five dogs are harnessed to a small sled and the driver, Calvin F. Townsend, is standing behind it. The lead dog is identified as "Sox." Trees line the shore of the...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway bridge at mile 220.5 over Birch Creek in Southcentral Alaska during construction. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1305." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number...
Title from caption. Photograph of the early construction phase of a birch bark canoe. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the left is the beginning of a birch bark canoe: the framework of straight grained white birch. The ribs are made from...
Title taken from caption. "Frank Kemis trapped in the Little Delta River area for many years -- lived at Birch lake". A view of a log cabin, (possibly Jemis' home,) with Jemis standing at the entry way.
"Fort Wainwright HHC 171st August 20, 1967." A laundry on First Avenue is largely surrounded by water. Birch Hill is in the background. Additional note attached indicates that these photographs were...
View of Collette Tyler, Twila Nail, Betty Jean Birch, and Jean Lane sitting on a bench at a Halloween party for the children in the new mess hall at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. 1949.
Title taken from verso. View of three men looking out from the window of the roadhouse on Birch Creek near the Steese Highway in Interior Alaska. This roadhouse location was known as Ferry Road House. From verso: "Birch Creek Roadhouse. Was a...
The building of the bridge on the Steese Highway spanning Birch Creek. A few workers are visible on the structure of the bridge. From verso: "Span 1 being erected. Birch Creek Bridge Alaska. August - Sept 1928."
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Birch bark over frame - 14' long with one end decked over with bark (23" w x 46 1/4 long); sewn with spruce root and seamed with spruce pitch; paddle of birch 68" long - lashed to 2 of 5 crosspieces. Piece of bark 33 1/2" x 15 3/4" lashed down for...