The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
View of tourist on giant block of ice at Arctic Ocean, Point Barrow, Alaska. From verso: "Giant ice cakes are thrust up in pressure ridges on the Arctic Ocean off Point Barrow. This photo shows a tourist by one of them. Many visitors this winter...
"Norwood operating the 'giant', Meilandt watching. The spring of 1918 on Jack Wade Creek, in the Forty Mile country. Jimmy Morris one of the miners that I first met there, said these true words 'Mr. Norwood, this gold mining is allright, but,...
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 from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Giant cranes, used to unload cargo at ARCO's East Dock at Prudhoe Bay, stand like sentinels during the long, cold winter of 1969-70."
Title taken from caption. View of a man standing next to a giant cottonwood near Martin Creek. The circumference of this cottonwood was 4.15 meters. The damage from volcanic ash blowing in the wind, loss of leaves and bark, is clear to see. Photo...
Title taken from caption. View of two members of the National Geographic expedition displaying one of the trout they have caught at Naknek River, Alaska. Behind them and to the left is a tent and to the right can be seen the river and part of their...
View of giant U. S. flag hanging on Anchorage's Federal Building. Sign reads: "Founders Day Carnival." From verso: "June 30, 1958" & "Elks 60 ft. flag being lowered from Federal Bldg. Part of statehood celebration, Anchorage, Alaska". Original...
London : Nisbet, [1881?] 432 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. : 20 cm.
The Giant of the North, published around 1881, is a tale about an Eskimo man who serves as a guide to a group of Englishmen as they search for the North Pole
59 second, black & white/silent, film clip of hydraulic gold mining near Esther [Ester], Alaska. The men use large hoses releasing pressurized water to cut into a small hillside.
Title taken from caption. View of a field of cabbages growing in the Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from caption: "Cabbage in Palmer area". Photo most likely taken between 1938 and 1940. Original photo size 5" x 7".
Wheels, of a size to dwarf the men standing next to them, support a platform with an apparatus designed for gold mining, perhaps used in hydraulic mining; it appears to be on sandy beach