From text of document: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the territory ceded to the United States by Russia by the treaty of March thirtieth, eighteen hun- dred and...
View of man and child walking on dock on main street of Seward, Alaska, with another person in background. From front: "Seword [sic] Alaska main street, taken by W.A. McPherson [sic]. 1904." From verso: "Seward, Alaska, 1904, a few days after it...
Photograph of a man and a dog team hauling logs. Narrative in album reads: "Picture at the right shows Albert hauling 30 ft. logs on the edge of the frozen Yukon to build his new cabin. He is not helping haul the load, but is steering it by...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a house build underground. The house is covered with sod and grass. Buildings can be seen behind it. Caption from finding aid reads "Sod house". Location is unknown.
Title from caption. Photograph of Eva's tent camp showing the tent, several dogs and a dog sled. Narrative in photo album reads: "Eva's spring camp or rather her permanent abode, when her husband Sam, who had no cabin, because he was too lazy...
(5:14 min.) (02 of 12) Building up defenses/Dutch Harbor and Adak Chief of construction operations--built 64 installations--Mostly coastal installations--Umnak Island construction 802 engineers/ 807 engineers Drexler?--attack on Dutch...
(5:15 min.) (05 of 27) Alaska Road Commission
Alaska Road Commission -- access in Alaska authority of U. S. Army. Started with authority to create WAMCATS. Three Army officers were to maintain building roads and trails, almost no...
(4:08 min) (16 of 27) Haul Road
Road built to get supplies to oil fields up north. Word from Juneau said to go ahead and build from Livengood to Yukon River.
(5:18 min) (17 of 27) Haul Road II
Bids to build from Yukon River north were too high so Juneau said go ahead and finish it. The crew got more equipment and people and fuel. The temperature dropped to -70 degrees. Juneau kept asking --...
(3:52 min) (23 of 27) Network of roads
Starting with Dept. of Interior, a development plan was required. One plan was for building along the Yukon River, perhaps from Steese to Eagle. Also there was a plan to build a series of roads to...
(4:15 min) (19 of 27) Haul Road -- Bettles
Once they made it to Bettles they had to refit equipment. There was too much wind north of Bettles, canvas was okay for a while but had to build with more substantial metal and wood. Snow ramps to...
(3:22 min.) (02 of 24) 02 Dellwood returned to cable ship duty. Laid cable from Seattle, Washington to Adak, Alaska. Fell overboard and almost drowned. Stripped down and kept moving to avoid freezing. Sergeant found a dugout and they...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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62 second, color and black and white, silent film clip. Sequence shows people at the crash site of a Star Airlines Bellanca aircraft. The passengers and crew build a fire and at the end of the clip dog teams arrive.
63 second, color/silent film clip. Shows the motorcyclist Slim Williams building a boat to cross the Klappan River. Title frame reads: "Slim Williams and John Logan Build a boat to cross the Klappan River".