Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Blowing snow nearly obscures the Prudhoe Bay discovery well in 1969 photo. 'White outs' such as this are common during Arctic winters."
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Barges used to transport Prudhoe Bay oil field facilities from the West Coast to Alaska's North Slope during the summer of 1969 remain frozen in the ice at ARCO's East Dock during the...
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Roughnecks connect pipe string during delineation drilling at Prudhoe Bay in 1969. Extreme weather conditions in the Arctic mandate that the drill floor be enclosed and heated."
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Hercules C-130 aircraft lands at Prudhoe Bay to bring in supplies for drilling activity in 1969. soon after the discovery of the giant oil field."
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Giant cranes, used to unload cargo at ARCO's East Dock at Prudhoe Bay, stand like sentinels during the long, cold winter of 1969-70."
Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "Support helicopter hovers low over seismic 'cat train' making its way across the frozen tundra of Alaska's North Slope in 1969."
View of Atlantic Richfield Company and Humble Oil and Refining Company office building at Sag River State No. 1 site, Sagavanirktok River, Alaska, with truck parked in right foreground. For detail of sign, see photo number AMHA-b85-27-1598. Early...
5 maps on one sheet. Relief shown pictorially. "Engraved for Millar's New Complete & Universal System of Geography." Components: Chart of the new northern archipelago, discovered by the Russians in the seas of Kamtschatka & Anadir -- Chart of...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Man standing near oil well at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Sign on well reads in part: "Atlantic Richfield Company. ARCO-Humble drill site ... Well no. 2." 1970's. Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from caption. View of buildings at Atlantic Richfield Company base camp at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, with trucks parked at left. 1970's. Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 10".
Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored - outline color. Insets: Russian America -- Capt. Franklin's journey from Coppermine River to the head of Bathurst Inlet & return by Hood's River.
Published in Liverpool by George Philip & Son in...
Relief shown by hachures. Insets: Russian America -- Capt. Franklin's journey from Coppermine River, to the head of Bathurst Inlet, & return by Hood's River. From George Philip's General Atlas(?),1859(?), no.71. Outline color.
Shows Baffin Bay, Melville Bay, Smith Strait, Peabody Bay & Kennedy Channel with corresponding coastlines of Greenland and Grinnell Land [i.e. Grinnell Peninsula]. Senate Ex. Doc., 1st session, 34th Congress ; no. 1. "Ackerman...
Shows Hudsons Bay, Baffins Bay, the east coast of Canada including Newfoundland, Iceland, Arctic Europe and Arctic Asia. Shows Greenland as being attached to Canadian Arctic, and includes "Bas" south of Iceland. Incomplete representation of...
Title taken from caption. Group of Anchorage Garden Club members standing next to helicopter during trip with ARCO to look at oil spill in Alaska. August 1990. Original photograph size: 3 3/4" x 5 3/4".