Title taken from caption. View of a lighter (barge) loaded with salmon and being towed by a tugboat. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1918.
Title taken from verso. View of government lighter resting on shore, Anchorage, Alaska. Also from verso: "Low[?] barge, Anchorage, Alaska." Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. 1920-1929. Original photograph size: 2 1/4" x 3 1/4".
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "A tugboat and barges, used to lighter freight from larger ocean-going barges after their arrival on Alaska's North Slope, maintain a lonely vigil after freezeup in the fall on 1969."
Title taken from collection notes. "Capt. Green preparing to run out a line." A man stands in a small boat, perhaps a lighter or a lifeboat, while others lower a spool of rope to him.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Title taken from front. View of concentrating tables used to separate lighter and heavier pieces of coal during coal washing in coal washing plant, Sutton, Alaska, as seen from end where coal is discharged. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1967." An...
Title taken from front. View of concentrating tables used to separate lighter and heavier pieces of coal during coal washing in coal washing plant, Sutton, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1966." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Title taken from front. View of concentrating tables used to separate lighter and heavier pieces of coal during coal washing in coal washing plant, Sutton, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1969." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Title taken from front. View of concentrating table used to separate lighter and heavier pieces of coal during coal washing in coal washing plant, Sutton, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1968." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Showing baleen. Whale is being partially butchered (some strips of maktak have been removed) while still in the water, so that it will be lighter and easier to pull up onto the ice. Whaling camp with canvas tent, skin boat (umiak), and hunting...
Daylight comes in through a window made of ice. A large door on one end allowed the boat through. The holes for the lashing were handmade. This driftwood frame was lighter than with modern techniques. Workshops were heated with seal oil lamps....
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 36 seconds MPG format. The northern fur seal is an eared seal similar to the sea lion. They have a thick waterproof underfur with over 350,000 hairs per square inch. Their fur appears gray or brown when dry, and...