Title taken from caption. "Mastodon Mining Co. bought the ground from former owner - old man, Gus Erickson. Company paid $37,000 in 1933. I helped Gus to mine early in the spring. Later, Gus left the place and he gave the cabin to me. The...
Title taken from caption. 1937 or 38 ? Mastodon Creek (way ahead after creek) Placer Mining operation. Elevated boxes used very efficiently. Pay dirt and lots of rocks (schist slabs) was dumped by the dragline into well constructed box with...
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 taken from caption. Either in 1937 or 1938. Dam gates are open to clean the mud out of the pond. Dam had to be cleaned up once or twice a month." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 74 - 5, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4.
Title taken from caption. "In 1935 or 1936. 120 horsepower centrifugal pump against 100 feet head was used. In take - 12" pipe, outlet - 14" connected to 18" pipe delivering the water up to creek to the elevated boxes (Sluice boxes)." ...
Title taken from caption. "1935 or 1936, water dam returning the water through 18" pipe up to elevated boxes. 120 horsepower centrifugal pump was used against 100 feet head." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 74 - 6, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4.
Title taken from caption. "U.S.G.S Monument and Simon on the top of the Mastodon Dome, in 1934 or 1935. Elevation - 500 feet or more. Note: It was my stomping ground between the creeks in that vicinity." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 74...
Title taken from caption. "Circle district in 1937 or 1938. Elevated sluice boxes supported by well built trestles." Photograph type and size: 35 mm neg. 74 - 6, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4.
Title from image. Photograph of what Mr. Ballew found in hydraulic mining. On the ground at the right of the tusk is a portion of a bison skull. Narrative in photo album reads: "Mr. Bellew found in hydraulic mining." "Mastodon tusk found...
Title taken from label on matting. Four bracelets carved from walrus tooth and tusks and mastodon ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7929. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
Title taken from label on matting. Earrings, necklace, and bracelet carved from mastodon ivory displayed in Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 7930. July 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 8 1/8" x 9 7/8".
Title taken from label on matting. S.M. Johnson, University of Alaska Fairbanks assistant paleontologist, holds mastodon bones recovered from placer mines near Fairbanks, Alaska. Also from label: "(Mastodon pelvic bone and femur). (Temp. 52)."...
Title taken from verso. Road construction foreman Pete Peterson holding mastodon tusk found during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction near Five Mile Camp in Interior Alaska. April 28, 1974. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size:...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "A supply base and food cache at the junction of Deadwood and Mastodon trails in the Yukon Valley, 1898."