View of men digging a railroad car out of the snow that was pushed off the tracks as a result of a snowslide at mile 48, south of Bartlett Glacier on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. From caption: "Slide m[ile]p[ost] 48. Jan 17 -1946." From verso "[?]...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission railroad construction at Henry Hansen & Co. construction site, Matanuska Branch, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G377." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Title taken from front. View of Fred Johnson construction site along Alaska Engineering Commission Railway, Matanuska Branch, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G378." From margin: " [Mile] 25.75." An Alaska Engineering Commission...
Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Paris. Shows coast of Alaska from Mt. St. Elias to Dall Island No. 17 of Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse. 1e Feuille. Engraved by Neele.
Published in London by G.G. and J. Robinson in 1798....
Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Paris. Shows coast of present-day Southeast Alaska from Mt. St. Elias to Baye de Clonard (Prince Rupert area) showing the tracks of La Perouse, with lettered reference points. From Atlas du Voyage de la...
Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Paris. Shows coast of present-day Southeast Alaska from Mt. St. Elias to Baye de Clonard (Prince Rupert area) showing the tracks of La Perouse, with lettered reference points. From Atlas du Voyage de la...
(6:52 min.) (17 of 24) 17 Purser's job vs. Steward's job. Union strikes
Purser dealt more with freight. The strikes happened, and the crew started making more money. "We didn't even know what overtime was." The price of everything went up...
(4:08 min.) (17 of 28) 17. Virginia comes to Alaska
Virginia was given the chance to come to Alaska as a flight instructor; if she didn't like it she was told she could fly home for free. She only instructed for one summer. She came up,...
Text on photo reads: "After Storm Nov. 17". View of the wreckage of the Lincoln Bar in Nome after a storm on Nov 17, 1945. "Jacobs [Studio] Nome" written on bottom right of photograph. Two wooden buildings adjacent to the wreckage are intact. ...
This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk on June 17, 1961 and depicts the park road in Mount McKinley National Park (now Denali National park and Preserve) with mountains of the Alaska Range rising above it.
From caption in The Polled Hereford Magazine Nov 15, 1947: "Denoting the progress of the Polled Hereford breed, this picture represents several possible 'firsts' - first air shipment of Polled Herefords out of the Western United States, first...
Title taken from front. Collection of mosses mounted with label, Nome, Alaska. From label front: "Nome, Alaska, April 17, 1908. Tundra moss collected by Mrs. ... Dessung." April 17, 1908. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Title taken from front. View of Ellamar Mine, Prince William Sound, Ellamar, Alaska, with mine buildings and tracks as seen from end of pier. Photo is property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Photographer's number G208. April 17, 1905....
Title taken from front. View of Ellamar, Alaska, from hill on Virgin Bay, Prince William Sound. Photo is property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Photographer's number G205? April 17, 1905. Photographer: P.S. Hunt.
Title taken from front. View of Ellamar Mining Co. buildings, Ellamar, Alaska, on Prince William Sound. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." Photographer's number G212. April 17, 1905. Photographer: P.S. Hunt. Original...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission houses, some being constructed, 2nd Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, with Cook Inlet in background. Also from front: "A.E.C. G136. Block 17." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Title taken from front. View from front of coal washing plant during construction at Alaska Engineering Commission Railway station, Sutton, Alaska, with power plant at left. Construction crews work amidst piles of lumber, while a flatbed car stands...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction crew working on tracks in front of train at Station 132[9]1 (fourth digit is reversed), Southcentral Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1913." An Alaska Engineering...