Title taken from caption. View of a sign near Eklutna Lake in southcentral Alaska, in the snow and at night. Sign reads: "United States, Department of the Interior, Alaska Power Administration, Eklutna Project. Eklutna Lake, elevation 8710 feet,...
View of Alaska Department of Highways sign for Wrangell Mountains in Southcentral Alaska. Sign reads: "Alaska Department of Highways. Wrangell Mountains. The mountains as viewed to the east are, left to right: Mt. Sanford, 16,210 feet, 52 miles...
John J. Sesnon Co.'s cable way for landing freight at Nome. 1400 feet long, shore tower 125 feet high, Cassion tower 90 feet above highwater. The largest cable way of its kind in the world.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a large pair of tongs on the ground next to what appears to be a large crucible. Two pairs of feet can also be seen.
Title from verso. Photograph of an oil rig and its reflection.
Verso reads: Oil rig of the Alaskamber Oil Company on Mirror Slough, Bering River Oil Fields, Alaska. The well is down 300 feet. Work is being carried on at present---July...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, looking up Lakina River from 4 miles below our camp, Blackburn Mountains in distance". "There would be no possibililty of communication with the outside world for two months. We were as completely...
Title taken from text. Photograph of two horses and men on a bridge with a camp in the background with the following caption: Signal Corps bridge across a long narrow lake at 85 1/2. Twelve feet from top of cap on bent to botom of mud sill. ...
Title taken from front. Man standing above Alaska Engineering Commission railway grade station 1627 at mile 80 of railroad along Turnagain Arm, Alaska, where snowslide has damaged trees up to 40 feet up their sides. Also from front: "A.E.C. H49."...
Title from photo album. Photograph of Lawyer Rivenburg in a birch-bark canoe. Narrative in the photo album reads: "These canoes weigh but fifty to sixty pounds and are from fifteen to eighteen feet long and about eighteen inches to two feet...
Title taken from caption. "11560 -- (38) The Klondike district, as well as other camps in the interior of Alaska, has a method of placer mining different from that which prevails in other sections of the United States. The ground, which is...
Title by cataloguer. A view of fur seals at the sea. Male Fur Seal is approximately seven feet long and weights about six hundred pounds. The female on average is five feet and weighs about three hundred pounds. A pup weighs ten pounds at...
Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "[Emery C.] Kolb attempting to take pictures of salmon from above the falls. As soon as he entered the water all jumping ceased. They must have tasted his feet!" It is probable that these are the Iliuk...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the National Geographic Society expedition standing in a tree looking down at horsetail (equisetum) growing up through the hollow trunk. The trees have been sandblasted by the ash blowing in the wind,...
Title and spelling taken from caption. View of a man walking along a beach on Kodiak Island. There is a building in the background. From May's journal, dated May 28th: "For the purpose of the identification of artifacts, the site is divided into...
Title taken from caption. View of the deck aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Boat Alert. The life preserver reads: "U.S. Coast Guard Alert." From May's journal, dated June 28th: "The Alert is about 120 feet long and has five hundred tons...
Title taken from caption. Actually the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter William J. Duane (later shortened to "Duane"). From May's journal, dated August 9th: "The Duane is 328 feet long with a 40 foot beam, but only draws 12 feet of water, which seems almost...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Views on the upper part of Malcolm River from a knoll just east from Hospital Camp looking southwest showing the mountain ridge 6,500 feet high upon which Grizzly triangulation station is...