Photo caption reads "Gus Owen and Roy Lynch weighing a sponge to be sent to Anchorage. About $14,000." View of two men working the scales used to weigh the gold removed from the Independence Mine, Alaska. 1939.
Title taken from caption. Cataloger's note: This mining site appears to be in full operation. In the center a load of dirt is being dumped; to the right, water is gushing from the elevated sluicing boxes, and onto the piles of tailings below.
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title taken from caption. View of a chunk of pumice thrown out from Novarupta, with a pickaxe nest to it for scale. The pumice is located somewhere in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National...
Title taken from caption. "A section of the ash fall showing differential weathering between first and second layers." View of a mining pick to give scale to the depth of the ash that has fallen in two separate layers. Photo taken at what was later...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission coal mines from above, Chickaloon, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1035." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G1035. Oct. 11, 1918. Photographer: H.G.K....
Title taken from front. Interior view of Alaska Engineering Commission coal mine tunnel, Chickaloon, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1029." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G1029. Oct. 11, 1918. Photographer: H.G.K....
Title from verso. Image shows a young woman seated by gold mining equipment and holding a pan full of gold nuggets, smiling. Behind her a pile of tailings is visible and next to her appears to be a sluice box. Photo may have been taken...
Tourists look at the aerial tramway used to transport copper ore between the mines and the mining operation at Kennecott Copper Mine in Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "This tramway, located at the back of the mine building, extends way back into...
61 second film clip, black & white silent Clip shows gold miners panning, using rocker boxes and sluice boxes. Narration describes small-scale gold mining.
The Alaska History Nugget series was created in 2004-2005 as a cooperative...
Title taken from verso. Two prospectors operating windlass for hoisting rocks and gravel from shaft at mining operation in Interior Alaska. From front: "The Alaska prospector." Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. 1920's. Original photograph...
Title taken from front. Miners standing in front of slag heap at Alta Mining Company operation at Otter Creek on Third Beach Line, Nome, Alaska, with tent at left. May 1908. Photographer: Goetze.
Title taken from caption. View of an aqueduct for gold mining located along the Steese Highway, Alaska. Photograph taken Sept. 2, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.