"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...
Title from caption. Photograph of Doc Billam's ferry crossing over the Copper River, Alaska. Visible in the photo are several tents, a cache and Doc Billam's log & sod cabin. A rocking chair is on the roof of the cabin.
Title from caption. Photograph shows a row boat tied up at the mile 373 ferry crossing along a river. Caption also reads: "No. 86. A. J. Johnson, Official photographer, A. E. C.". For location, compare with: UAF-1989-166-505-neg nitrate.
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
33 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Wagner Collection". Film shows a ferry carrying a truck across the Tanana River at Delta.
60 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a ferry crossing the Tanana River, loading a Thrifty Market [of Fairbanks] truck, and travelling back across the Tanana. There is a nice view of a log building at Rika's Roadhouse.
51 second, black and white, silent film clip of the ferry M/V Kalakala (meaning "Flying Bird" in Chinook). Originally launched as the Peralta on October 14, 1926, in San Francisco, she burned to the waterline on May 6, 1933. The intact hull was...
Title taken from photograph.
Verso: Virginia Maru, of Mitsubishi Steamship Company, loading Ketchikan Spruce Mill's first export cargo to Japan at Ketchikan (2,340,000 Ft. BM), for account of Wrangell Lumber Company. The information above...
Ferry across the Chena River with several children sitting nearby. Also seen are tents on near side of river and houses and cabins on far side. The ferry operators shack is near the lower left.
Title taken from caption. "Ferry building, San Fransisco, CAL. Looking down Market Street." Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. 205. Reproduced from glass plate.