49 second film clip, black & white/silent, of a film clip organized like a film newsreel. Shown is a railroad contstruction camp, the Alaska Railroad bridge over Eagle River, and a railroad observation car. Captions on the film read: "The...
Title taken from front. Interior view of Alaska Railroad observation and dining car, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G2040." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G2040. Sept. 28, 1922. Photographer: H.G. Kaiser. Original...
Title taken from verso. President and Mrs. Warren G. Harding on Alaska Railroad observation car during official visit, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Photo number 181. Summer 1923. Photographers: C.J. Blanchard and Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size:...
Title taken from verso. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work standing on Alaska Railroad observation car addressing crowd at Seward, Alaska, during President Warren G. Harding's official visit to Alaska. Also from verso: "The 'Denali' Car"....
Title taken from verso. View of men and women at rear of observation car on North Pole Limited train in Alaska. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. 1920's? Original photograph size: 2 5/8" x 4 1/2".
Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "A party taking observation of the sun at noon to determine the latitude of the ship." Based on other photos is the series, the men are on the ship "Pactolus" somewhere near Alaska. Photo taken during...
Relief shown pictorially. Inset: the north part of Norway, Lapland and Greenland. Includes 5 large illustrations and a brief text description of the lifestyle of the Laplanders. "According to the newest and most exacting observation by H. Moll,...
Title from verso. Photo is of Fort Gibbon near Tanana, Alaska on the Yukon River. Fort Gibbon was created to reduce lawlessness in the mining camps along the Yukon River during the gold stampedes of 1898-1910. It later provided support for...
Engraved map of Russia, with information based on Russian maps. Double sheet map (glued together). Half circle title top center. Cutaways in bottom corners, one showing scales, one labeled "Observation," acknowledging what maps the information...
Title from verso. Photograph of a camp at Cape Smythe, Alaska. Visible are several skin or canvas tents, small wooden structures or piles of baggage and an observation tower, probably for spotting whales.
Title from verso. Photograph of a tower in an isolated Aleutian location. Image has been modified, perhaps because original was over exposed and needed contrast. Verso reads: "Isolated tower of a remote gale-swept outpost in Aleutians...
(7:43 min) (11 of 17) Check your own gas cap
Picked up an L1 observation plane with Sasoon for Fish & Wildlife doing work in Prince William Sound. Flying on Sunday no one around Still had some in main tank as well as auxiliary tank. When...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.