Title taken from caption. Lowering a life boat off the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa to practice rescues. En route from Juneau to Yakutat. There is a village in the background, possibly Juneau. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian...
Title taken from front. Members of the U.S. Cruiser Maryland perform a battalion drill for an audience in Seward, Alaska. Also from front: "S. Sexton." 1913. Photographer: S. Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Men from Revenue Cutter at drill on the railroad dock in Seward, Alaska. 1910-1913. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title from verso. Photograph of an oil drilling family and some equipment.
Verso reads: "They drill Alaska's oil wells. The man in the middle is Tom White The Sourdough driller. He drilled the first oil well in Alaska. The woman is...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Drill rig is illuminated in Arctic sunset/sunrise during winter of 1969-1970. During 56 days in winter, the sun never rises above the horizon in Alaska's far north."
Title taken from verso. View of Alaska State Highway workers drilling holes for road markers on ice bridge (also known as Hickel Highway) over Yukon River during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. Also from verso: "Also drill...
View of drill operation, with compressors on left in foreground and drills stretched out in background; drills spreads could be strung out nearly a half-mile