Title from verso. Photograph of a Civil Defense team as they move cargo destined for aid and reconstruction after the 1964 earthquake and tsunami. Full caption from verso reads: "HQ AAC -- HEAVY CARGO -- Civil Defense members of the...
Title taken from back of photo. "HQ [Headquarters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- Heavy Cargo -- Civil Defense members of the earthquake stricken community of Seward strain to shift some of the heavy cargo airlifted into the area by men and...
Title from verso. Caption reads: "To my Oman Benny. From "Tommie" [or Ronnie]" Verso reads: "Ronald Cuffey. Light - heavy - 180. Jamaica, New York. $17. #30." Image shows an African American man standing in a hallway dressed for a...
Title from verso. Photograph of U.S. troops advancing on Holtz Bay on Attu Island. "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of Holtz Bay, the Jap [ Japanese ] garrison on...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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"HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaska Air Command] -- Heavy Damage -- Large scale damage was inflicted on the Alaska port city of Seward by the Good Friday earthquake and the tidal wave that followed shortly...
Title by indexer. Snowy landscape. Two photographers seem to be photographing the vehicle, which is pulling heavy equipment. There is a partial view of a house or a shed located to the left.
Title from accompanying notes. "Pete on summit of Mount Bona. Third time Mount Bona had ever been climbed and the first time that Mount Bona had been climbed via West Bona." Mountain climber at summit, he is in red down parka with wolverine...
Title taken from label on front. View of heavy ice breakup on Tanana River at Alaska Engineering Commission dock in Nenana, Alaska on May 11, 1921 at 6:42 a.m. Men stand on railroad tracks on dock and hoisting machinery with hook visible in right...
Title taken from verso. View of construction workers installing refrigerant lines to keep building foundations frozen at Pump Station 3 in heavy area of permafrost during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction on North Slope in Alaska. Oct. 1974....
Man stands in front of buildings on Fourth Avenue in Seward, Alaska, with snow piled high. 1910? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title by indexer. Verso: Assembling [Baker?] Snow [illegible] Fairbanks November 3 [illegible]. Men stand around a piece of heavy machinery. Next to it is a tripod from which appears to hang a snow plow blade.
Title by indexer. Verso: Assembling [Baker?] Snow [Plow] Fairbanks November 193[illegible]. Three or four men stand around a piece of heavy machinery, next to which stands a tripod suspending the blade of a snow plow.
Title from caption: [Unloading] gas shovel - 5/15/31. A crane is raising or lowering a piece of heavy machinery, while three men look on. Location is Fairbanks; compare with UAF-2007-64-46.
Title from caption: [Unloading] Gas Shovel - 5/15/31 - Fairbanks. A crane with smoke coming from its stack; another piece of heavy equipment sits on a car or platform in front of it. Three or four men are to the right. The name "Larson"...