Title taken from caption. View of Alan May on a beach surrounded by whale bones. There is a wheelbarrow in the background. Photograph taken during the 1936 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Photo caption reads "Gus Owen and Roy Lynch weighing a sponge to be sent to Anchorage. About $14,000." View of two men working the scales used to weigh the gold removed from the Independence Mine, Alaska. 1939.
Title taken from caption. Cataloger's note: This mining site appears to be in full operation. In the center a load of dirt is being dumped; to the right, water is gushing from the elevated sluicing boxes, and onto the piles of tailings below.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows the storefront of a sewing machine store and gift shop. A decorative totem pole sits outside. Caption from finding aid reads "1948 Antoinette Daisy's shop". Location may be Juneau, Alaska.
Title taken from front. View of turbo generator used to generate power in coal washing plant, Sutton, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G1973." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G1973. May 6, 1922. Photographer: H.G.K....
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title taken from front. View of Fourth of July parade with spectators lining the street, Anchorage, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G617." From verso: "A[laska] R[ail]r[oad] Fire Dept. in front. City of Anch[orage] horse drawn fire truck." An...
Title taken from verso. View of construction of gas line running from Prudhoe Bay to Pump Station number 4 near Galbraith Lake during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Brooks Range, Alaska. Also from verso: "Here the trench is dug as line will...
Title taken from caption. View of cannery from aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Northland en route from Seattle to Alaska. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands. Identified...
Title taken from caption. View of a chunk of pumice thrown out from Novarupta, with a pickaxe nest to it for scale. The pumice is located somewhere in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Photo taken at what was later designated as Katmai National...
Title taken from verso. View of pipe with concrete coating at Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction site at Sagavanirktok River on North Slope in Alaska. Also from verso: "Weighted pipe needed due to negative water table and under river passage."...
Title taken from verso. Aerial view of Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction grade materials disposal site near mile 86 on Richardson Highway in Southcentral Alaska. Jan. 29, 1975. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from verso. View of vehicle being loaded into Hercules transport airplane in Fairbanks, Alaska for delivery to construction camp during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. Crane stands in far right background. Also...
Title taken from front. Two men working in a garden in the Klondike at Dawson, Yukon Territory. Photographer: Landahl's Emporium. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 5 3/8".