Relief shown by hill shading. Cover title: Alaska: through scenic seas to the land of the midnight sun. Inset: [Grand Trunk Pacific railway line from Prince Rupert to Edmonton]. Text and photos on verso are promotional material for Grand Trunk...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a woman and a child holding the line of a boat as they sit on the beach next to a large pile of walrus meat. Caption from finding aid reads "St. Lawrence Island people holding line to hold boat". ...
(3:15min) (02 of 08) Working different jobs worked -- tug boats; Foss Company -- Seattle; father -- civilian blacksmith; Fort Lodden; Pierson, Paul -- friend; Pierson, Paul -- became superintendent of Foss Company; worked -- Standard Oil...
(4:13 min.) (03 of 08) American Mail Line and Alaska Steam World War II; trips to war torn areas; hauling ammunition and supplies; bombings; Foss Co. -- learned about diesel engines; Standard Oil Company; Alaska Steam -- worked on diesel...
(4:17 min.) (07 of 08) Unions and changes in the engineering job Marine Engineers Benevolent Association; MEBA Union Hall; union meetings; strike -- Alaska Steam; strike -- American Mail Line; animosity -- company, union representatives;...
(5:11 min) (27 of 27) Final Comments
Winter road north from Eagle and Circle to the DEW line. Built by Alaska Freightline. LaTourneau trains, made for the desert, were not very successful here. Less paperwork makes for more fun in the...
Title taken from text.
Album caption: Salchaket Valley as seen from cliff shown in next picture. Road Commission camp in foreground. Solid red line shows route new line. Dotted red line old route.
Title taken from text.
Album caption: Gordon's Pass, 54-59 miles above Fairbanks. Solid red line to left shows route of trail and new telegraph line. Dotted line to right the old route now abandoned.
Title by cataloger. An aerial view of Anchorage airport terminal including airplanes, the runway, and the surrounding facilities. Company names on the planes include Pacific Northern, PNA, Northwest, Air France, and Flying Tiger Line.
Interior shot of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line construction camp dining hall in Driftwood Bay, Unalaska Island, 1958. Two men are standing at a counter; tables are set with dishes and cutlery. DEW Line sites were constructed in the Aleutian...
Text on photo reads "Placing Dome, Driftwood Bay 1958". Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line site construction at Driftwood Bay. Construction worker is visible on scaffolding on the upper left of the dome. DEW Line sites were constructed in the...
Index map in Atlas of award: twenty-five sectional maps and index map showing the line fixed by the Tribunal, by the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, and published by the United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1904.
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 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...
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
Ms. In ink; hand colored. Selected relief shown by hachures. Shows Western Union Telegraph line from New Westminster to Quesnelmouth with some detail. Original map glued to paper backing with neat lines and margins redrawn where missing....