Title taken from front. The U.S. Cruiser Maryland arrived in Seward, Alaska with a crew of 810 on July 30, 1912. Naval staff from the Maryland investigated the Alaskan coal reserves while in port. Original photograph size: 3 3/8" x 5 3/8".
An Army tugboat seen close to the wreck of the S.S. Yukon after the storm near Seward, Alaska. The U.S.S. Curb and a Coast Guard boat are further out. From verso: "Glacier Photo Service, Seward, Alaska." 1946. Original size of photograph: 8" x 10".
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows two boats in the harbor at Nome, Alaska. The near boat appears to be a tugboat and the far one appears to be a scow. A few houses sit on hills in the distance. Caption from finding aid reads "Nome...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a small tugboat pushing a barge on the a river. Caption from finding aid reads "Barge on Kuskokwim with smaller tug". Location is on the Kuskokwim River, Alaska.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a tugboat pushing a barge on the Kuskokwim River. Caption from finding aid reads "Tug and barge on Kuskokwim River 1954-56". Location is on the Kuskokwim River, Alaska.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a tug boat pushing a barge on the Kuskokwim River. Caption from finding aid reads "Tug and barge on Kuskokwim 1954-56". Location is on the Kuskokwim River, Alaska.
31 second film clip, color/silent, of Front street and the shoreline at Kotzebue, Alaska, 1958-1961. The tugboat, Helen Lee, is seen with a walrus carcass on its deck. People are walking on the sidewalk.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows many ships and a tugboat anchored along a shore. There is smoke coming out of all of their smokestacks. A large hill sits in the background. Along the shore a few rough docking structures can be seen....
(3:15min) (02 of 08) Working different jobs worked -- tug boats; Foss Company -- Seattle; father -- civilian blacksmith; Fort Lodden; Pierson, Paul -- friend; Pierson, Paul -- became superintendent of Foss Company; worked -- Standard Oil...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "A tugboat and barges, used to lighter freight from larger ocean-going barges after their arrival on Alaska's North Slope, maintain a lonely vigil after freezeup in the fall on 1969."
Title taken from caption. "9355 -- (3) The two oldest transportation companies operating on the Yukon are the Alaskan Commercial Company and the North American Trading & Transportation Company. They are located on the little harbor about a...
Title taken from caption. "9324 -- (42) The pioneer white settler at Skagway located there in 1891, yet the first ship load of Yukon argonauts who landed on that beach in July, 1897, saw few signs of human habitations. Today four splendid...
Title taken from caption. View of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Ingham while docked. Location is likely Valdez. Location is not noted with photo but several others in colection are labeled from Valdez. "U.S.C.G. Cutter Ingham" and "Dow 120"...
Title taken from caption: "Men loading their baggage on the scow previous to coming on board the Pactolus." View of men moving the supplies and equipment of the National Geographic expedition from the dock to the barge so that the tugboat "Fran"...