Photo shows a mine employee, Harry Rice, standing in the doorway of the powder house at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's Independence Mine. He is holding a box labeled Explosives. The powder house is the building where mining...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway storage houses for powder and explosives used in railroad construction, Anchorage, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G162." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's...
Title taken from verso. View of smoke and dust from explosives during Copper River and Northwestern Railway construction along Copper River, Alaska. 1909. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3" x 5".
Title taken from verso. View of explosion from powder explosives during Copper River and Northwestern Railway construction above Copper River, Alaska. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3" x 5 1/8".
Four laborers haul Tovex (explosive agent) on their shoulders, climbing steep slope to begin preparing drill holes; road and construction vehicles in background
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from front. View of aftermath of explosion of 10,600 pounds of TNT at railroad construction site in Interior Alaska. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 162. June 1920. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Title taken from label on front. Man standing in front of 200 tons of TNT at mile 319 of Alaska Engineering Commission railroad construction between Curry and Healy in Interior Alaska. Also from label: "T 216." From verso: "Const[ruction] Curry to...
American soldiers "in the thick of it" on Attu Ridge in May 1943. By the end of the month the battle of Attu ended with American victory and the invader was driven from American soil.