"Pioneer Mining Co. dump on winter fraction. Nome, Alaska April 21st, 1910. 50,356-1/2 yd buckets, height 98 feet." There looks to be a mining operation to the left, with miners and a large pile of tailings on the right.
Title from caption. Dome City was located 14 miles North of Fairbanks, Alaska. Also known as Dome Camp. Man driving two horses pulling a sledge left side of the image in the foreground. Mining camp and tailings pile in the background. 8...
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...
Title from verso. Image shows a young woman seated by gold mining equipment and holding a pan full of gold nuggets, smiling. Behind her a pile of tailings is visible and next to her appears to be a sluice box. Photo may have been taken...
Title from verso. Image shows a large garden at a fish camp along the Tanana River. The garden contains several rows of leafy plants. A man in a hat can be seen standing at the edge of the river bank slightly to the left of the center of the...
Title from caption. Photograph shows borrow pits between Moose and Goldstream creeks at mile 460.5 in the Fairbanks District. Tripods are holding up what look like electric lines. Caption also reads: "No. 101. A. J. Johnson, Official...
Title from caption. Photograph shows a mining operation called "No. 6" or "No. 8" near Ester, Alaska. There is a pile of tailing in the foreground, and dwelling built on a hill in the background.
Title from caption: Victor Group, Vault Ck. Photograph shows a man operating a sluice box, and some other men near a rough stick fence or wall holding in tailings. They appear to be members of the Victor Group.
Title from caption: "No 98 [9B?]. Fairbanks Ck." Photograph shows water flowing from what appears to be either a long sluice box or an aqueduct. What looks like a half-built log cabin sits nearby along with a large shed.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a system of steam pipes thawing the permafrost on what may be the Seward Peninsula. Original size is 5.25 x 3.25 in.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a gold dredge in the distance with men working around it, with a system of pipes in the foreground. Location may be on the Seward Peninsula. Original size is 5.25 x 3.25 in.
Postcard is postmarked from Iditarod, Alaska on Sep. 18, 1911 and is addressed to Mrs. Clemons, Ridgeway, Tex. [Texas]. Written is, "Sept. 18. Dear Mother, received your letter the other day. Was glad to hear from you. ...
Title from caption: "Joe [Roy?] and Co. [illegible words] Dump Trail Creek-Ruby gold mining district, 1913. Written on the verso, "Dear Mama, your letter of May [?] at hand. I am all O.K. and glad to hear from you. I am as you imagoned...
Title from caption: "No. 1 above Discovery Cleary Creek, Alaska, Fairbanks mining dist." Written on front of postcard, " Showing mode of dumping the buckets of gravel which is taken out of ground. Sluice boxes on troughs are laid at side of...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...