Title taken from verso. View of styrofoam heat protection on footing for Trans-Alaska Pipeline bridge over Gulkana River during construction in Southcentral Alaska. Also from verso: "Note styrofoam heat protection for permafrost." March 26, 1976....
Left to right: Lydia Olympic, Michael Andrew Jr., Trefim Andrew, Raymond Apokedak, Smiley Andrew and Howard Nelson waiting for their heat for cross country running in Kokhanok.
Title from verso. Photograph of a grounded and burning ship after a raid on Dutch Harbor during World War II. Verso reads: "The battered SS Northwestern continued to smoke long after the Jap [ Japanese ] raiders left Dutch Harbor. The...
Title taken from caption. "9359 -- (4) A permanent residence at St. Michaels is not a thing to be desired, particularly by persons of a sociable disposition, for the winters are long and dark and cold; for hundreds of miles in every direction...
Title taken from caption. "11560 -- (38) The Klondike district, as well as other camps in the interior of Alaska, has a method of placer mining different from that which prevails in other sections of the United States. The ground, which is...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Seabees work in near 100 mile per hour winds and sub-freezing temperatures to put portable boilers into operation to supply heat to Navy housing aboard the U. S. Naval Station, Kodiak,...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the expedition using the geothermal heat to cook with in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska, during a National...
Title taken from caption. View of three members of the expedition standing next to the fumarole (vent) that they have lowered their dinner into to cook. The Katmai eruption destroyed all the wood within a dozen miles, so members of the expedition...
Title taken from caption. View of two members of the expedition pulling dinner out of the fumarole (vent) they used to cook it. The Katmai eruption destroyed all the wood within a dozen miles, so members of the expedition had to use geothermal heat...
Title taken from caption. View of Jasper Dean Sayre, a botanist with the expedition, pulling dinner out of the fumarole (vent) he used to cook it. The Katmai eruption destroyed all the wood within a dozen miles, so members of the expedition had to...
Title taken from caption. View of four members of the National Geographic expedition on the floor of Katmai Valley, Alaska. Two of the members of the expedition are preparing a meal by using the geothermal heat of Fumarole 5. Photo taken in what...
Title taken from verso. Men sitting in chairs reading in front of fireplace in USO building in Anchorage, Alaska, with another man visible in left background. Also from verso: "Moose head above fireplace. Some raptor on mantle. (Note leaning...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "May, photographing our cache of chipped knives, June 8th." View of Alan May photographing a set of six chipped knives. He is using a tripod and wearing a heat net. From May's journal, dated June 8th: "The...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Altho one might think this snap was taken in the sun, actually it was raining hard." From May's journal, dated July 26th: "Our dish washing is a very simple affair. We have not gas enough to heat hot...
Title taken from front. View of horse race during 4th of July celebrations, Valdez, Alaska, with spectators lining the street. Business shown: Arctic Store. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." Photographer's number G3658. July...
Title taken from verso. View of heating unit made from oil drums used to heat shed at Trans-Alaska Pipeline Pump Station 10 at mile 218 Richardson Highway in Southcentral Alaska. 1975? Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x...
Title taken from verso. View of Trans-Alaska Pipeline bridge pier during bridge construction at Gulkana River in Southcentral Alaska, with construction workers at right. Also from verso: "Note styrofoam insulation to protect permafrost from thawing...