First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
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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Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "1939. B.C. - Near Telegraph Creek. Slim -." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized...
62 second, black & white/silent film clip, of the business district in Palmer, Alaska. Shown in this film clip are Sally's Cafe, Koslosky's General Store, Valley City Cafe, the post office and barbershop. A man pumps gasoline into an...
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "KJK." Four women dressed in fur coats standing next to a ski plane marked "Fairchild". In front of them, a gasoline cannister lies on its side. These appear to be the same women pictured in UAF-1991-98-397.
Title from verso. "Wilkins (expedition). Reproduced by Jerome Lardy." A close up shot of the large Fokker airplane which was part of the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic Expedition of 1927. The side of the ski plane reads "Fokker"; the nose,...
Title taken from caption. View of Naptowne Inn along Homer Highway, near Homer on Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, with truck parked near gasoline pump in background. Sign on building reads: "Naptowne Inn. Beer. Eats. Fishing licenses. [...] gas & oil."...
Title taken from caption. View of woman wearing kuspuk standing near car during flooding in Bethel, Alaska, with buildings in background. Windsock flies at left near building and gasoline pump is visible at right. Also from caption: "Bethel, AK."...
Title taken from front. View of Standard Oil Company and Red Crown Gasoline tanks at Seward, Alaska, along Alaska Railroad. 1920's. Original photograph size: 7" x 10".
Title from indexer. Photograph shows three men standing in front of an airplane. one of the men is holding a dog. There are cans of Red Crown Aviation Gasoline around them.
12 min, 19 sec film clip, color/silent. Senators Ted Stevens and Pete Domenici speak and take testimony at a committee hearing on high energy prices. The first witness is Lee Raymond (Chairman, CEO Exxon Mobil Corporation).
8 min, 12 sec film clip, color/sound. Senators Ted Stevens, Pete Domenici, and Lisa Murkowski speak and take testimony at a committee hearing on high energy prices. The first witness (continuing from part 1) is Lee Raymond (Chairman, CEO...
Title taken from accompanying notes. "Filling the gas thanks prior to the evacuating convoy to Glennallen [from] Valdez AK., following the Alaska [Earthquake] 3/27/64".
Title from accompanying notes. A woman with sled dog and a man reaching down for the gangline of a dogsled. There are several fuel drums, a dogsled, a wooden wire spool, two gas station fuel pumps, some young spruce trees and a white building...
Title from slide index prepared by Peter Haase 14 July 2006. The Chevron station at Tetlin Junction. Two log cabins, a log pole sign with pick, pan and shovel, an American flag, several moose antlers on posts, a Chevron sign, two men, a van, and...
Title taken from caption. View of a gas station and milepost located at the intersection of the Alaska Highway and the Glenn Highway in Tok, Alaska. Sign reads: "Whitehorse 401. Valdez [?]. Fairbanks 207. Anchorage [?]. Big Delta 110. Boundary 57."...
Title taken from caption. View of stores in village of Dillingham, Alaska, with cars parked at left and truck parked between buildings near gas pump at right. Also from caption: "Dillingham, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer:...