Photograph shows colorful mountains stretching off into the distance. The mountain gets its' color primarily from the copper, nickel and cobalt sulfide minerals with some platinum group metals and gold. The valley...
Photograph shows colorful mountains stretching off into the distance. The mountain gets its color primarily from the copper, nickel and cobalt sulfide minerals with some platinum group metals and gold. The valley...
Title by indexer. The village, hotel, Town Lake, depot and the railroad are viewed from above. The writing at the bottom of the photo is obscured but may read in part, "headwaters of Chitina".
Title taken from caption. "9299 -- (39) Here we see the miners digging loose the bank and shoveling the dirt into the stream. Sometimes blasting is used to loosen the bank. The stream carries the soil with the gold which is in it to a sluice...
Title by cataloguer. "(o25 LADD) (7-10-41) (81/4" - 2.500) University of Alaska, Negative N - 68 - 139." Cataloguer's note: This is a view of the campus at a considerably high altitude. The surrounding landscape including forests, rivers and...
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a gorge with a stream flowing through it as seen from an airplane. Caption from finding aid reads "Kenai Peninsula". Location is on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows mountains and a river in a valley as seen from the air. Caption from finding aid reads "Mountain Kenai Moose Range near Skilak Lake". Location is Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows aerial tram lines heading towards a building on the ground. A large building that appears to be a cathedral sits at the bottom of the valley.