Aerial view of Seward, Alaska looking west from the opposite side of Resurrection Bay. Note that Lowell Creek has been diverted to the waterfall at far left. The Standard Oil storage tanks (at left) are painted as part of the World War II...
Title taken from front. Looking east across Resurrection Bay at 4th of July Creek drainage from Seward, Alaska waterfront beach. Also from front: "14B. L.N.G." March 21, 1909. Photographer's number 14B. Photographer: Lillie N. Gordon. Original...
Lowell Creek, near its outlet into Resurrection Bay, overflowing its banks and flooding the Seward Light and Power building in Seward, Alaska. 1905. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Lowell Creek running through early Seward, Alaska. Alaska Central Railway office is visible at far right and tents are in the trees at left. ca. 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 5 1/4".
Two women and a boy sit on the edge of Lowell Creek in Seward, Alaska. Seward Light and Power Company headgate is visible in the distance. From verso: "Headgate S.L. & Power to Seward." 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 4 3/16".
Title taken from front. Benjamin Creek running through box canyon on the Kenai Peninsula near Seward, Alaska. Also from front: "Photo by Wild Bill." ca. 1910. Photographer: Bill DeWitt. Original size of photograph: 6 1/4" x 4".
"Ott and Scheele' placer mine headquarters on Crooked Creek, a tributary of the 70 Mile River, it in turn being a tributary of the mighty Yukon River." Panoramic photograph of mining headquarters.
"The hydraulic operation at Crooked Creek under full working head in the spring run of water. It was quite a show. Like most of the operations it was always too little water to operate the 'giants' and too darn much gravel mixed with the gold." ...
"Hand operated steel cable ferry, constructed by O. & S. to span the 70 Mile River when the waters were too high for fording. It was located at a point called 'Nimrod Bar.' Nimrod worked for O. & S. at Crooked Creek, but had also worked his own...
"A water power saw mill, the brain child of Jack Scheele. This was arranged, that a small log could be set in the log cradle, the water turned in the race to the water wheel, that in turn operated the affair that when the slab had been sawn off...
"A view of the rough country at the head of the 70 Mile River, running into the Yukon, below Eagle. The Ott and Scheele partners had a placer mining show developed on Crooked Creek, a tributatry of the 70 Mile." Panoramic photograph of the rough...
A group of men, probably miners, seem to be surveying the mining materials and supplies near their mining camp. One man sits atop a horse-drawn carriage. There are at least 4 stacks of different size pipes laying on the...
Photo looks to be of a creek flowing through the land, adjacent to a road. In the background, there is what looks to be a flamingo, but is actually a man swinging some sort of implement. Some men are also possibly mining...
A few men stand in the middle of a creek bed, possibly mining. One man is holding a long-handled shovel and another looks to be digging or shoveling. Photos UAF-1985-122-110 to UAF-1985-122-121 seem to be of the same...
"Norwood operating the 'giant', Meilandt watching. The spring of 1918 on Jack Wade Creek, in the Forty Mile country. Jimmy Morris one of the miners that I first met there, said these true words 'Mr. Norwood, this gold mining is allright, but,...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows access routes, mineral deposits, land district boundaries and locations of missions. Includes distance table and legend. Insets: continuation of Aleutian Islands -- From Juneau to Forty Mile Creek....