Moody's Fuel barge docked up in Igiugig. Moody's barge wasonw of the few barges that delivered fuel oil and gasoline and other goodies to communities when the water in the Kvichak river was high.
(9:33 Min.) (02 of 09)
Barging
landmarks -- sandbars; night navigation; freight -- food, machinery, lumber; 120 tons a trip; short season; steamboats; Peterson, Don; changes in handing freights; forklift; building of the barge; barge history; army;...
(10:14 min.) (09 of 09)
Learning about the barging business
Eskimo boy hunting; beach; tied up the boat; land downstream on the barge; Demientieff, Martha; summer; advice; barge business; safety net; schooling; adventure; educated children in both...
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 two men on a barge loading salmon caught in nets into the barge. Caption from finding aid reads "Fish trap at Kalgin Island, loading salmon into barge". Location is Kalgin Island, 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.
(3:24 min.) (24 of 24) 24 Barge runs Barges were difficult to bring into port, had to judge waves and tides just right. On one trip to Unalakleet, men, women and children off-loaded supplies. In the 1940's the people of Unalakleet wanted...
57 second film clip, black & white/silent. Clip shows an Alaska Freight Express barge. Two crewmen open the cargo door and move a small ramp into place. The camera pans down different holds.
Title taken from text. Photograph of a Signal Corp construction barge with the following caption: Signal Corp construction barge picking up relief cabin between Minto and Tolovana while enroute to latter place in August 1913.
View of supplies and supply barge in distance as seen from White Alice Communications site 717 AC&W (Aircraft Control & Warning) base camp at Tin City, Alaska. The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force...
Title taken from caption. View of men loading or unloading a barge docked in Teller with another boat to the seaward side of the barge. Several horses wrapped in blankets stand aboard the barge. 1922.
View of the barge "Blazer" run aground at Kanatak, Alaska, near Kodiak, with men preparing to pull the boat free. From verso: "Kanatak Barge Blazer on beach after storm parcial [sic] buried in ice & sand being ready for cat to pull her out on beach...
Title taken from label on matting. Side view of cold storage barge "Trinder" at Lomen Reindeer Corporation reindeer processing plant at Elephant Point (also called Buckland), Alaska. Sign on barge reads: "Pacific Cold Storage Co. refrigerator no....
Title taken from label on matting. View of man and dog standing in front of cold storage barge "Trinder" at Lomen Reindeer Corporation reindeer processing plant at Elephant Point (also called Buckland), Alaska. Sign on barge reads: "Pacific Cold...
Title taken from front. View of crane unloading freight from barge, Anchorage, Alaska, with men on dock and barge. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1235." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G1235. April 5, 1919. Photographer:...
Title taken from front. View of freight barge "Lawrence" and tugboat "Annie W." alongside dock with freight for Alaska Engineering Commission, Anchorage, Alaska. Sign on barge reads: "Lawrence." Also from front: "A.E.C. G1236." An Alaska...
Title supplied by cataloger. A red barge, the Emard No. 2, grounded on mud flats. Another red boat has been pulled ashore. Men working on barge and on shore, pushing fish onto ground. Cook Inlet. Slide printed 8/1966.
Lumber and firewood stacked on long pier; below pier, numerous people, including musicians and dogs, wait on barge; alongside barge is a tender, flying a U. S. flag Note retractable ramp to left of barge on which two men stand