Title taken from caption. " Johnson and Allen and Darling entries, fifth All Alaskan sweepstakes, Siberian vs. American dogs, Nome Alaska 1912 . Lomen Bros, Nome # 863 ".
Cataloguer's note: John Johnson, also known as "The Iron Man"...
Scenes from the Alaska State Museum at Juneau. Items include Southeast Alaska artwork, a petroglyph from Wrangell, Eskimo stone anchors, an early Russian cannon from Kodiak, a copy of "Signing the Alaska Treaty", a hand-sewn 36-star American flag...
Title from album caption. The sign on the building at right reads 'Ketchikan Iron Works Dock 31'. On another building: '[Ketchikan Machine Wks] Covered Marine Railway Capacity [500 Tons]'.
Title from accompanying materials. This photograph shows the interior of a early 20th-century home. Prominent items include electric lamps, a piano, and a cast iron radiator. There are several small ornate rugs on the hardwood floors and two...
A group of tourist walk along railroad tracks in Kennecott Copper Mine area in Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "From 1913 to 1938 these tracks were used to haul copper ore from Kennecott [sic] down to McCarthy and then on to Cordova, where it was...
Tourists look at the aerial tramway used to transport copper ore between the mines and the mining operation at Kennecott Copper Mine in Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "This tramway, located at the back of the mine building, extends way back into...
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Title taken from caption. View of livestock from the village of Nikolskoye, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
From verso: "Christian Nerby at university." The back of the postcard also has the handwritten information:"Mr. Ferguson, 20002 Iron St. Engberg Druggist." Portrait of three university students.
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 Alaska Engineering Commission Railway buildings, Anchorage, Alaska, with men working in foreground. Also from front: "A.E.C. G119." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G119. 1916....
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."...
Man, possibly a miner, poses with Native women and three small children outside log cabin; cast iron wood stove with pipe sits on ground Photographer's number 7304
Note: this ship, a National Historic Landmark, is now a museum ship ported at the San Diego Maritime Museum in San Diego; she is the oldest ship that still sails regularly and the oldest iron hulled merchant ship still floating. The ship is both a...
Wheels, of a size to dwarf the men standing next to them, support a platform with an apparatus designed for gold mining, perhaps used in hydraulic mining; it appears to be on sandy beach
White marble bear sculpture on a stone base; [made for the Grave of Jim K--------. The orthodox priest refused to allow it in the cemetery, and so it was placed in front of his clan house, Gaayeis’ Hít (Iron House) of the Chookaneidí; the...