Photo shows a mine employee, Harry Rice, standing in the doorway of the powder house at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's Independence Mine. He is holding a box labeled Explosives. The powder house is the building where mining...
Title taken from caption. "Another view of Turnagain Arm, showing the flats that are uncovered at low tide. The tides in this region attain a height of from 36 to 42 feet. The rocks and stones strewn on the flat were displaced only after...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway storage houses for powder and explosives used in railroad construction, Anchorage, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G162." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's...
Title taken from front. View of United States ship "Nanshan" at Anchorage, Alaska, carrying powder and rails. From front: "A.E.C. G15." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G15. Aug. 25, 1916. Photographer: P.S. Hunt....
Title taken from front. View of black smoke from blasting during Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction, Turnagain Arm, Alaska. From front: "A.E.C. G272." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G272. Jan. 27,...
Title taken from front. View of blasting during Alaska Engineering Commission construction at McHugh Creek, Turnagain Arm, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G268." Photos AMHA-aec-g268, AMHA-aec-g269, AMHA-aec-g270, and AMHA-aec-g271 in sequence. An...
Title taken from front. View of blasting during Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction near Potter Creek, Turnagain Arm, Alaska. From front: "A.E.C. G275." Photos AMHA-aec-g274, AMHA-aec-g275, and AMHA-aec-g276 in sequence. An Alaska...
Title taken from front. View of coyote blast at Hole in Wall bluffs along Matanuska River, Matanuska Valley, Alaska, during Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction. Also from front: "A.E.C. G280." From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet...
Title taken from front. View of blasting during construction of Matanuska Branch, Alaska Engineering Commission Railway, mile 24 1/2, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G374." Photos AMHA-aec-g373, AMHA-aec-g374, AMHA-aec-g375, and...
Title taken from front. View of rock blasted and displaced by explosives during Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction, Turnagain Arm, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G490." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number...
Title taken from verso. View of smoke and dust from explosives during Copper River and Northwestern Railway construction along Copper River, Alaska. 1909. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3" x 5".
Four laborers haul Tovex (explosive agent) on their shoulders, climbing steep slope to begin preparing drill holes; road and construction vehicles in background