Title taken from caption. "$1,250,000 clean up Miners & Merchants Bank, Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number: C 49." Cataloguers note: This photograph shows gold bars stacked high above ground.
Title taken from front. Group of coal miners standing next to railroad car loaded with coal in Alaska Engineering Commission coal mine tunnel, Eska, Alaska. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G1023. Oct. 9, 1918....
Title from caption. Photograph of a church and belfry near Lake Bennett. Narrative in photo album reads: "Right an abandoned church of the gold rush days standing all by itself near Lake Bennet where miners stopped for some rest in their...
61 second film clip, black & white silent Clip shows gold miners panning, using rocker boxes and sluice boxes. Narration describes small-scale gold mining.
The Alaska History Nugget series was created in 2004-2005 as a cooperative...
Title taken from caption. "Left to Right: Jack Dunn, Arnold Akers, Dolph Mespelt, Ed Whelan, Matt Bellon, Fred King. Taken at Medfra about 1934. All Upper Kuskokwim Trappers and Miners."
Title taken from front. Miners standing in front of slag heap at Alta Mining Company operation at Otter Creek on Third Beach Line, Nome, Alaska, with tent at left. May 1908. Photographer: Goetze.
Title from collection notes. White two-story building, trees, and a sign (with dogwood emblem on bottom) that reads: "Ashcroft Manor. In 1862 C.F. and H.P. Cornwall settled here and developed Ashcroft Manor. The ranch, with its grist and saw...
The first laws for the Harris Mining District (Juneau) were drawn up by Richard T. Harris on October 4, 1880, shortly after he and Joe Juneau made their initial discovery of gold. This set of laws was superceded by another code which was adopted...
Description of community from 1932 report: "Hyder is entirely a mining town whose growth depends upon the restoration of the value of silver. Its population is made up of about 30 families, children, and the remainder consists of prospectors;...