(4:17 min.) (07 of 08) Unions and changes in the engineering job Marine Engineers Benevolent Association; MEBA Union Hall; union meetings; strike -- Alaska Steam; strike -- American Mail Line; animosity -- company, union representatives;...
View of entrance to U.S. Mercantile Company in Nome, Alaska, with whale bones surrounding doorway. Sign above doorway reads: "U.S. Mercantile ..." Small sign on building reads: "... Coffee." July 4, 1951. Photographer: Robert Mounteer. Photograph...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a man walking in front of a post office and another building with a sign reading "Coghill" and "Trade with Coggie". The store appears to have been owned by William A. Coghill. Another building sits behind...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission paddle wheel steamer "Ominega", Knik Arm, Anchorage, Alaska, with ship in background. Also from front: "A.E.C. G514." From verso: "Paddle wheeler steamer "Ominega" run from Anchorage...
View of a Seattle street in 1898, possibly 1st Avenue South, the current location of Schwabacher Hardware Building. Several pack mules leaden with goods and tied to a rope handrail are seen, as men and boys walk along a wooden sidewalk and in the...
Title taken from caption: "Summer bungalow belonging to Mr. Frank Smith, Sup[erintenden]t of the Naknek Packing Co." View of summer bungalow belonging to Frank B. Smith at Nakek, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on...
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."
Title taken from front. View of suspension bridge over Klondike River, running from Dawson, Yukon Territory to Louse Town (the red-light district in Dawson), with boats anchored near shore. From verso: "Dawson to Louse Town. Publ. by Portland Post...
These two volumes illustrate an 1897 expedition up the Taku River by members of the Yukon Mining, Trading and Transport Company in the summer of 1897. The expedition was led by P.I. Packard who proposed to build a railroad to Dawson via the Taku...
Postcard is postmarked from Devine [Texas] and is addressed to L.J. Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. Written on verso is, "Iditarod. July 16, 1910. Dear folks at home, I'm glad to hear from you this...
Title taken from caption. "Tanana Valley R. R. Trains at Fox, Alaska. Hand colored." Business signs visible include: "Chesley & Ryan General Merchandise, Miners Supplies - Steam Fitting" and "P.C.S.Co Market".
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: A stage coach is seen here in front of "Tangleys Road House." The travelers and their drivers are seen posing for the camera. The side of the sled reads "Fairbanks-Valdez Stage."
Title taken from verso. View of core drilling machinery on ice bridge on Yukon River down river from Stevens Village, Alaska, during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction. Also from verso: "Robar Drilling of Anchorage, Alaska is taking geological data...
"Pvt Camille Joseph (left) and Sp3 Alex Patrick (Alaknuk, Alaska) of Co. "A" 2nd Scout Bn., Alaska National Guard are marking targets during practice fire at the Guard's annual encampment at Ft. Richardson, Alaska."
Title taken from verso. Quonset hut warehouse for Terminal News Company in Fairbanks, Alaska, with truck parked in front of building and another building in right background. Sign reads: "Terminal News Company [...] The American News Company. Your...