The photographs primarily relate to Valdez and the Copper River country during the period 1899-1905. Included are photographs of towns, buildings, camps, social events, mining, packing supplies and equipment, people, and scenery. Some photographs...
The photographs primarily relate to Valdez and the Copper River country during the period 1899-1905. Included are photographs of towns, buildings, camps, social events, mining, packing supplies and equipment, people, and scenery.
(5:56 min.) (01 of 12) Background and arrival in Alaska Auburn University--TVA heavy construction--B. B. Tally Construction quartermaster--Ladd Field construction Jan '41-- Four total projects Ladd Field, Ft. Richardson, Elmendorf and Yakutat &...
(6:56 min.) (23 of 24) 23 Cannery runs
A ship would take up the crews and the empty cans in the spring. Filipino workers were in the majority. In the fall, the cannery workers and the fish would come back. The Swedish fishermen were...
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River conditions
villages; Galena; Fairbanks; hauled horses; north slope; big wheels; Yukon River bridge; couldn't get passed rapids; pushed it over; Lyndon transport; rapids downstream; fast; Rampart; advertising; Bush...
56 second film clip, black & white/silent, of activities at the hospital in Palmer, Alaska. Scenes on the film clip include medical professionals seeing patients and setting the arm of a small girl, a patient ward, a nurse holding two infants...
56 second, black & white/silent, film clip. The clip shows the transporting and sorting of copper ore. Transport is via ore cars and aerial tramways and conveyor belt. The clip was taken from the movie "The Story of Copper."
56 second, color/silent film clip. Clip shows a Sikorsky Dragonfly [helicopter] landing at Anaktuvuk pass, the crew showing the helicopter to the locals and playing with children, and the helicopter taking off.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Aerial view looking southeast over Kachemak Bay during airplane flight, preparing to land in Homer, Alaska on Kenai Peninsula. From slide mount: "Sept '56. Looking SE over Kachemak Bay. In flight - about to land at Homer." Sept. 1956. Photograph...
Aerial view of airplane over Anchorage, Alaska, with Chugach Mountains in background. From slide mount: "M[oun]t[ai]ns E[ast] of Anchorage, Aug 56." Aug 1956. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Leland A. Olson.
Aerial view of Allakaket, Alaska, on Koyukuk River, during Dr. Milo Fritz's trip in area. After his trip, Dr. Fritz wrote "A Voyage on the Yukon and its Tributaries" in The Alaskan Churchman (v. 56, no. 4, Dec. 1961) describing his journey. From...
Aerial view of Homer, Alaska, with airplane wing partially visible at left. From slide mount: "Homer '56." 1956. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Leland A. Olson.
Aerial view of mountains as seen during flight between Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska, with airplane wing visible at right and river visible below at left. From slide mount: "M[oun]t[ai]ns between Anc[horage] & Fairbanks. Sept '56." Sept. 1956....