Title taken from caption. "11503 -- (9) Those who have never witnessed the breaking up of the ice on the lakes and rivers in the interior of Alaska, will find it difficult to appreciate the enormous quantity of ice which moves with the opening...
Title from caption: "Carving ice in the Yukon River at Ruby, Alaska. 5 ft. 8 in. thick, Mar. 1, '13." Postcard is postmarked Ruby, Alaska on Mar. 29, 1913 and is addressed to Mrs. Alice Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas. R.R. no. 7 Hopkin [Hopkins] Co....
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 45 seconds, MPG-1 format. Amid the ice floes, the ocean is calm as the wave action is damped by the ice. With little wind, the only sounds are...
A steamship floats in a sea of ice. There are three men standing on ice in the foreground with tools, possibly trying to reach the stranded ship. This is probably the S.S. Portland. Photos UAF-1985-122-151 to...
Title from caption. Caption also includes the number 338 and the word "Photocraft." Verso reads: "Ice breaking up in Copper River at the Chitina crossing Mile 132 C.R. & N.W. Ry. Stringers and rails taken up to save them from going into river....
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows many automobiles parked on a frozen lake. A few people appear to be ice skating. Caption from finding aid reads "Goose Lake ice skating". Location is Goose Lake, Alaska.
31 second film clip, black & white/silent, of men cutting ice. The men cut the ice with saws and haul it away using a small sled or sledge pulled by an old fashioned truck.
1 min, 29 sec film clip, black & white/sound. Mark Ringstad discusses the excitement every year in Fairbanks when the ice on the Chena River broke up and began flowing.
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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30 second film clip, color/silent Clip shows an earthmover in operation on or near the ice bridge over the Yukon River during the construction of the Trans-Alaska pipeline.
Four men are standing on the ice, three of them are on ice skates. Identified are left to right: Arthur James, Arthur Crookitshine and Joe Peter, the fourth man is not identified.
Title taken from front. Men ice fishing for tomcod on Bering Sea ice, Nome, Alaska. Man in foreground fishes from a sled set on its side through holes in the ice, with his catch piled in front of him. Photographer's number A615. n.d. Photographer:...
His waterproof boots are made of bearded sealskin bottoms and hairless seal skin tops. He carries a staff called an Unaaqpauraq in Iñupiaq with a point on one end and a hook at the other, used to test the strength of the ice before walking on it....
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 2 minutes and 9 seconds, MPG-1 format. The outboard hunting boats are piloted quickly but carefully around the ice floes to spots where the boat captains...
Image is of a man breaking up an ice jam in a river. There seems to be a ship docked in the background, with many people gathered near the buildings in town. Photos UAF-1985-122-64, UAF-1985-122-66 and UAF-1985-122-67 may...
Caption reads: "U.S.R.C. "Bear" and S.S. "Corwin" Roadstead, Nome, Alaska." Two ships sail through icy waters near Nome. May be about June 1, 1914, as mentioned in the "Bulletin of Photography," volume 17, no. 415,...
A ship seems to be stuck in the ice floes of the ocean. This is probably the S.S. Portland. Photos UAF-1985-122-151 to UAF-1985-122-156 and UAF-1985-122-164 to UAF-1985-122-165 seem to be of the same ship at the same time.
A steamship floats in the ice floes of the ocean. There is a caption at the bottom of the photo that appears to have been cut off. The remaining text reads: "Land." This is probably the S.S. Portland. Photos...
A few men watch as others on and nearby try to assist a steamship stranded in ice. There is a person to the far left who seems to be doing something in the ice. Others are climbing the cabling on the ship. The word...