Photo caption reads "Nelson surveying underground." View of Ned Nelson standing over the tracks at a split in the tunnels of the Independence Mine and surveying the left hand route. On the wall of the mineshaft are "FM", the number 490 repeated...
View of crew surveying for construction of bridge at Yukon River during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. July 2, 1974. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10 1/8".
Title taken from caption. The man in the center is holding a surveying instrument (a transit?) while the man on the right appears to be taking notes. All are aboard the steamer Taku.
Title taken from caption. View of one of the National Geographic expedition members at work using an alidade. An alidade is a topographic surveying and mapping instrument used for determining directions, consisting of a telescope and attached...
Title taken from caption. View of expedition members with surveying equipment standing on crater rim during National Geographic Society expedition to what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. 1917. Photographer: J.W....
The Edward L. Creamer Papers consist of one memoir titled "A Dogface in Alaska: Surveying and Surviving," with digital print copies of 190 photographs. The memoir details Creamer’s experiences as topographic computer with U. S. Army’s 551st...
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Photograph of four men holding tree cutting tools and one with a stadia rod for use in surveying. Caption for this photograph states: Known as the 'Grizzly Gang'. This quartet of old timers cut practically all the poles used...
Title by indexer. Three men with surveying equipment while sitting and squatting on a hillside. The man in center appears to have a book or paper in his hands. A tripod stands between two of them.
Title taken from front. View looking south from dock during construction, Knik Arm, Anchorage, Alaska, with railroad terminal yards in distance. A construction worker works in foreground at left, surveying equipment stands at right, and a man...
Title taken from front. Group of men in front of building at Alaska Engineering Commission camp at Healy, Alaska, with surveying equipment at right. Sign reads: "Resident Engineer." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 128....
Title taken from front. Man carrying surveying equipment looking across Turnagain Arm in Southcentral Alaska from mile 88 of Alaska Engineering Commission railroad tracks near Kern railroad flagstop, with railroad construction camp in background....
Title taken from front. View looking south at Turnagain Arm Division Alaska Engineering Commission railroad construction and trestles from area of snowslide between miles 83 and 84 along Turnagain Arm, Alaska, with surveying equipment on...
Summary: Many of the photos were taken by Baldwin while he worked as a surveyor for the U.S. government on the Alaska-Canada boundary survey from Demarcation Bay on the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias from 1907 to 1913. Also included are images of...