Title from accompanying notes. "Work topside pulling climbers out of the crevasse. Herb Staley, big man in red to left in image, had mountain rescue knowledge and supervised the rescue operation." Men working with ropes and preparations for...
Title taken from verso. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work standing on Alaska Railroad observation car addressing crowd at Seward, Alaska, during President Warren G. Harding's official visit to Alaska. Also from verso: "The 'Denali' Car"....
Title taken from verso. United States Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work and Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert inspect reindeer herd at Cantwell, Alaska. Photographer's number 209. Summer 1923. Photographers: C.J. Blanchard and Ray B....
Title taken from verso. Presidential physician Dr. Charles E. Sawyer and United States Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work climb a stairway at Chickaloon, Alaska, during a government visit. Photographer's number 264. Summer 1923. Photographers:...
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 collection notes. "Capt. Green in work boat." The Captain stands in the bow, pushing with an oar. Two others sit, rowing the boat, which holds a spool of rope. The side of the boat reads: "Str Reliance Work Boat". The...
Title taken from verso. United States Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work stands along railroad tracks on a governmental visit to Alaska. Summer 1923. Photographers: C.J. Blanchard and Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 3 7/8" x 5".
The majority of the work at the stations was indoors and included progress on heating and ventilation systems, installation of valves, and work on piping and pipe corridors
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows men working on an open cut at a gold mine on Pedro Creek. Caption at bottom reads: "Open cut work on [Pedrow Cr.] C4".
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "A drilling rig sends out a spray of steam during exploratory work at Prudhoe Bay in 1969. The well which discovered the huge oil field had previously been drilled but additional wells, such as...
This area looks like a work site. Numerous logs can be seen scattered all over the ground. There is a large platform/ transportation device, and other heavy equipments, as well as a man on a horse and a row of tents and such seen at a distance.
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Album caption: New work on the bank of the Salchaket. Can be seen in 16. Two extra wires hung across the river for use in case of breaks when river cannot be forded.
Title taken from text. ¬aption: New work around Shaw Creek bluff, and junction pole where wires leave main line for the relief cabin. Also visible in the photograph are fences, telegraph poles and lines, and a wagon.
Title by cataloger. A profile of a woman seemingly at work in an office. She has dark hair and is wearing a striped blouse. She is presumably an employee of Wien Airlines.
Title taken from caption. View of Clarence F. Maynard returning from work. Maynard was the topographer for the expedition in 1917. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1917. Photographer: Paul Rarey Hagelbarger.
Title taken from caption. View of two members of the National Geographic Society expedition cooking next to a framework of sticks beside the Naknek River, Alaska. Caption also says: "Frame work of a native camp; Naknek River below the rapids."...