(10:14 min.) (09 of 09)
Learning about the barging business
Eskimo boy hunting; beach; tied up the boat; land downstream on the barge; Demientieff, Martha; summer; advice; barge business; safety net; schooling; adventure; educated children in both...
(9:00 min.) (05 of 09)
Barging
Martha; working close to the land; barge; waves; advice for young people; hovercraft; year round; 75 tons; 30 miles per hour; follows the river; demand; fuel; propane; airlines; schedules; develops better...
(9:33 Min.) (02 of 09)
Barging
landmarks -- sandbars; night navigation; freight -- food, machinery, lumber; 120 tons a trip; short season; steamboats; Peterson, Don; changes in handing freights; forklift; building of the barge; barge history; army;...
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Annette Wilson is sitting in the dog sled, and behind her is Martha Olympic; while Helen Nelson is looking on. This was their transportation from the airport in New Stuyahok. They went to New Stuyahok for a basketball game.
Children, teacher, and other adults, pose on schoolhouse steps From verso, with no indication of order: Alice Hill, Mrs. Geo. Murphy, Edwin Kasko, Eddie Alto, Annie Hopkins, John Kasko, Elizabeth Joseph (?), Dora Jack, Mrs. Pette, Helen...
Cyanotype of Mrs. White (thirs from left), proprietor of the Sunrise Hotel in Sunrise. Alaska, with her daughter Martha (center) and three unidentified men and an unidentfiied woman. Several wooden buildings are visible in the background. The...
Cyanotype photograph of Mapoy (also known as Martha), a Dena'ina woman who later became wife of Arthur "Long Shorty" McConahay, an Alaska Commercial Company agent at Knik Station, and her three children, with the Alaska Native wife of Harry H....
Cyanotype photograph of Mapoy (also known as Martha), a Dena'ina woman who later became wife of Arthur McConahay, Alaska Commercial Company agent, at Knik Station on Cook Inlet. She is depicted here with three of her children: Mary, left; Martha,...
Cyanotype photograph of Martha White, right, and her mother, left, in Sunrise, Alaska in 1898. The child is wearing a hat and holding a cat. A man, several wooden buildings and a pile of logs are visible in the background. Photograph taken during...
Cyanotype portrait of Martha White (left), the first white child born in the Cook Inlet region, and an Alaska Native child identified as Miss Mason (right) at Sunrise City in 1898. There is another unidentified person in the doorway behind them. ...