Title taken from caption. "9201 -- This stereograph shows the kind of dress worn by men and women in Alaska during the summer. During the winter they adopt the dress of the natives. This consists of high boots made of seal or walrus skin,...
Title taken from caption. "John Folger - Discoverer, Prospector, Trapper. Innoko River (Folger Creek) 1884. Discovered Gold in Koyukuk (Tramway Bar) 1894. Trapped on Kantishna River. Died There in 1931. Made an Early Arrival on Yukon River,...
Title taken from caption. "Greg Stewart - Trapped, Traded and Prospected Upper Kuskokwim Country For Over Forty Years, Staked On Bonanza Creek With Carmacks in 1896 (August 19)."
Title taken from caption. "11503 -- (9) Those who have never witnessed the breaking up of the ice on the lakes and rivers in the interior of Alaska, will find it difficult to appreciate the enormous quantity of ice which moves with the opening...
"Title taken from caption. "9256 -- (14) There were a goodly number of robust young fellows who undertook this journey to and through the valley of the Yukon in search of the royal metal fully prepared to overcome all difficulties and to get...
Title taken from caption. "11506 -- (35) Some of the sites selected by the prospectors who joined the stampede to the Yukon in 1898 were both picturesque and romantic.
In the view here represented, a cosy spot has been chosen under the...
Title taken from caption. "9299 -- (39) Here we see the miners digging loose the bank and shoveling the dirt into the stream. Sometimes blasting is used to loosen the bank. The stream carries the soil with the gold which is in it to a sluice...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: A close-up shot of miners at work. A miner seen here is pouring water in the sluice box; a basic method used to separate (by washing out) dirt from gold. As noted on the photograph, this image is...
Title taken from caption. " Ore outcrop, knights Id., Alaka Copper Co., 400 ft. above tunnel, showing width of vein and claim stakes, Oct. 18, 1907. " Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. G3018. Reproduced from a glass plate.
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, gold prospectors headed for Fairbanks taken on the Summit --25 miles from Valdez". Very early one morning we moved our camp over the pass. Heavily loaded, we were late in reaching the summit. Ten...
Two men and dogs, some harnessed to a sled, stand near a large pile of firewood; cabin has earth berms along sides; possibly in Chisana Mining District
Camp set up for a long stay: tent, clothes on line, game on rack, tables, cooking pots, gold pan, cooking spit; a man tends campfire; likely in Chisana Mining District