The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title taken from caption. "On the right limit of the creek. Mining Camp is visible - way down below the hills where the Porcupine creek empties into the Crooked creek. Mining operation by Berry Holding Company - Dredging on Mammoth Creek."...
Photograph shows a standing man wearing a red cap and red plaid shirt supporting a large mammoth tusk in front of him. Cliffs and hills are in the background.
Text from slide: "198 LB. Mammoth Tusk at Ester...
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "1929, L to right, Wilson W. Walton, ---, ---, Chester Meers." Image shows four young men holding up a mammoth tusk in front of double-doors to a large building.
Title from verso: "Wilson Walton, Elizabeth Griggs, ---, Chet. Mears, 1930." Image shows two men and two women standing in front of a garage door and holding up a prehistoric mammoth tusk.
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 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,...
Title from caption. Photograph of J.B. Moore and P.E. Kern standing with three fossilized mammoth or mastodon tusks in front of the window of Mr. Kern's business. Caption reads: "No. 2." "Mastodon Tusks. (Weight 250 lbs. each) Exhumed...
Title from verso. "Edmonton, Alberta - Aviation supplies, foodstuffs, special service equipment,, mail and a myriad of other articles are funneled into the mammoth cargo warehouse on the Army Air Base here for aerial shipment via C-47s (Douglas...
Verso: This tree stump at Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska is all that remains of what must have been a mammoth tree that was sheared off at the onset of the last ice age. As the glacier receded the stump appeared as a reminder of the dramatic...
Heurlin, C. "Rusty" (painter). Oil painting. Size: 30.5 x 23.75 in. Painting was created from a photograph. The man shown is Pete Maas, a miner. Photo in 1949 Sept. Issue of National History Magazine.
Mammoth ivory sinker tapered on both ends. On the top of the sinker there is a darkened area (outter core). The sinker has one circular hole drilled into each end for line attachments. Looped through the bottom hole in the sinker is wire (picture...