View of building at White Alice Communications site on Resolution Island, Nunavut, Canada. The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force telecommunication link system constructed in Alaska and parts of Canada during the...
View of buildings at White Alice Communications site on Resolution Island, Nunavut, Canada. The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force telecommunication link system constructed in Alaska and parts of Canada during...
Material: Bird Bone 47.75 mm in length, 9.20 mm wide, elongated oval shape of human face with topknot-like decoration at of head, base of item broken beneath chin of face. Culture: Aleut
Title from caption: "The Government Farm. Fairbanks, Alaska." In the bottom left side of the image the last part of the caption is obscured by the photograph's border. Writing in the border reads "35 mm NEG. 73-159". Image shows six men...
Title from caption. Writing on lower left border reads "35 mm NEG. 73-146". Image shows men standing in a field of agricultural crops. Trunks of felled birch trees are visible in the foreground. Farm buildings built out of logs and a long...
Title by indexer. Image shows three men and a woman wearing hats and formal clothing, standing in a field of tall grain. Trees surround the field in the background. Writing on lower left margin reads "35 mm NEG. 73-158".
Title from verso. Image shows a man seated on a piece of farming equipment harnessed to two white horses in a field of oats. The man appears to be engaged in harvesting the oats. One of the horses has oats in its mouth. On the bottom left...
Title from caption. Writing below the image says, "Slaterville." Writing on verso states, "Fairbanks, Slaterville - House still standing, 1962. Charlie Slater home." Image shows stacks of oats in a mowed field. Two horses harnessed to a...
Title taken from caption. Year ? Archie Laird is watching the ice break-up on the middle of Koyukuk river. He and I were mining at that time on Tramway Bar about 40 miles below Wiseman. Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg 73 - 243 3 1/4 x 4...
Title taken from caption. Circle Mining District. It was either in 1934 or 35. I was working there - 12 hrs a day, $ .62 / hour and no accommodation to speak of. Washtub bath only was available. At that time, in the bush that was rather...
Title taken from caption. View of the Eagle creek camp in 1935. "Berry holding company hydraulicking. As a miner, I was working on this creek for three seasons. S.M.S." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 73 - 243, 3 x 5
Title taken from caption. "Berry holding Company in 1933 or 34. Tony the hard working Swede fixing and setting up the giant on the hillside. Steam boiler was used for bradly scraper to scrape the tailing four ft wood was used. Tony and I were...
Title taken from caption. "On the right limit of the creek. Mining Camp is visible - way down below the hills where the Porcupine creek empties into the Crooked creek. Mining operation by Berry Holding Company - Dredging on Mammoth Creek."...
Title taken from caption. " Summer of 1966 or 1968. Frank Miller in front of his home; (Road house, store and post office). In 1972 it was all gone. Frank died a few years ago and the house is completely burned. Note: Historical location of...
Title taken from caption. "Mastodon Mining Co. bought the ground from former owner - old man, Gus Erickson. Company paid $37,000 in 1933. I helped Gus to mine early in the spring. Later, Gus left the place and he gave the cabin to me. The...
Title taken from caption. Either in 1937 or 1938. Dam gates are open to clean the mud out of the pond. Dam had to be cleaned up once or twice a month." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 74 - 5, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4.
Title taken from caption. "Circle district in 1937 or 1938. Elevated sluice boxes supported by well built trestles." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 74 - 6, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4.
Title taken from caption. 1937 or 38 ? Mastodon Creek (way ahead after creek) Placer Mining operation. Elevated boxes used very efficiently. Pay dirt and lots of rocks (schist slabs) was dumped by the dragline into well constructed box with...
Title taken from caption. "In 1935 or 1936. 120 horsepower centrifugal pump against 100 feet head was used. In take - 12" pipe, outlet - 14" connected to 18" pipe delivering the water up to creek to the elevated boxes (Sluice boxes)." ...
Title taken from caption. "1935 or 1936, water dam returning the water through 18" pipe up to elevated boxes. 120 horsepower centrifugal pump was used against 100 feet head." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 74 - 6, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4.