Title taken from verso. Contractors working with bulldozer and truck to clean up debris along roadside during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. Oct. 17, 1974. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
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(4:43 min.) (08 of 27) Start of contracting
First job was building the bridge between Illinois St. and College Road over Noyes Slough. Lots of paperwork, everything was an emergency since there was no experience with how to do the simplest...
(3:57 min.) (09 of 27) Denali Highway
One of the complaints is that the Road Commission did most of their own work and contracted out very little. There was no profit in bringing the equipment all the way here. Setting up base and...
Title taken from front. Group photo at Alaska Engineering Commission construction camp at mile 249 in Southcentral Alaska, including E. Swansen (only woman contractor on government railroad). Also from front: "A.E.C. H100." An Alaska Engineering...
Title taken from verso. Group of managers and constractors examining 48 inch conduit during construction of Trans-Alaska pipeline at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. July 24, 1974. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10 1/8".
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
Title taken from verso. The following is from a caption attached to the back of the photograph: "As a Twenty-eight-year-old graduate student in 'human geography,' Don Charles Foote traveled to Point Hope under an AEC research contract. For...
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "13 Feb 75. DACW 85-75-C-0026. Tanana River Bank Prot. Dragline exc. plug @ sta 20. Clark." Image shows work being performed by a dragline excavator in February under Army Corps of Engineers contract...
"And this is number 6, and we have a number of pilots here. Yea that was a group of pilots that flew the navy contract operation out the Aleutians during WWII.
Description from interview with Ralph Savory and his daughter, Diane.
Title from caption. Photograph of two steamboats, one larger than the other. Narrative in photo album reads: "Large and small steamboats on the Yukon River. Some used oil for fuel, while others used cord wood cut by natives on contract to the...
Embroidered red, white and blue circular fabric patch. Design: a globe balanced on the nose of a seal and the name "Baker Engineers" and the motto "We traverse the earth" on a ribbon around the globe. A surveyor's level sits on top of the globe,...
Baker Engineers employee Glenn (probably last name) standing outside a log building in Galena. Sign on the building reads: "Galena Alaska Yukon River Los Angeles City Limits". Baker Engineers was under contract to the United States Army Air Forces...