Title from verso. Image shows a street scene in Fairbanks. In the center of the image are seventeen dogs harnessed to a sled. A man wearing a suit is sitting in the sled and the dogsled driver is standing behind it. A long row of cabins and...
Title from verso. View of dog team heading down a snowy street in winter. Several cabins, houses, buildings and a Catholic church are visible. Power lines on both sides of the street are also visible. Photo may have been taken by Calvin...
Title from caption. Image shows a street scene in Tanana, with three buildings visible. The building on the right has a sign reading "Tanana Post Office." Several horses and horse-drawn-sleds are in the street. Men are seen standing in the...
Shows sea and land mail routes with notes on frequency of service. Includes legend and list of post offices. Selective relief shown by hachures. Insets: Map of the Tanana district -- Aleutian Islands -- South-eastern part of Alaska (enlarged). ...
Title taken from image. Color postcard of the Tanana mail team. Nearly all pictures were taken, developed and printed by myself. The following pages contain vews of our trips to and from Alaska and our four years residence there. The...
Title from caption. Photograph shows men and their horses sitting in Teakhill Canyon meeting the mail. Three sleds sit in the snow. "Teakhill" may be Tiekel, the name of various places near Valdez.
Title from caption. Photograph of Mrs. Rivenburg and Mr. Decker on the mail launch. Narrative in photo album reads: "Mrs. Rivenburg and Mr. Decker on the N. C. mail launch. She went to Tanana on this launch with Mr. Decker & Mr. Franzell. ...
Title from caption. Photograph of men and dogs landing a boat on the shore ice in early spring. Narrative in photo album reads: "Landing mail in spring. Dogs are helping pull boat to shore thru broken ice."
Title from indexer. Photograph shows Noel Wien standing next to a WAA Hamilton Monoplane in 1929. The side of the airplane reads "Wien Alaska Airways Inc." and "U.S. Mail". Original size is 5.5 in. x 3.5 in.
Photo showing a dog team sledding away on the snow. The exact Long Creek is uncertain, but based on the other photos and postcards in the collection from Ruby, this is most likely the Long Creek located about 15 miles...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a few people standing with a large sled and sled dogs. Caption from album reads: "During the greater part of the year the mail is carried by dog teams. The dogs are hitched by two with one dog at the head as...
The Harry Heins material consists of a photograph album documenting the building of the Canol Highway. The Canol (short for Canadian Oil) Road was a project that built a pipeline and a road from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada, to...