(3:52 min) (23 of 27) Network of roads
Starting with Dept. of Interior, a development plan was required. One plan was for building along the Yukon River, perhaps from Steese to Eagle. Also there was a plan to build a series of roads to...
133 second film clip, black & white/silent. From title frame: "Washburn Collection, 1937". Film shows a man starting the propeller on a Fairchild 51 and then two men digging it out of the snow.
44 second, black & white/silent film clip. Clip shows a Ford Tri-motor airplane. Men crank start the plane, which then taxis down the snowy runway and takes off.
Formal portrait of William "Willie" "Iggiagruk" Hensley, who served as both a State Representative in Alaska for 4 years, as House majority leader, and as a State senator, for 4 years from 1971-75 and again for a term starting in 1987,...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
From verso: "Starting from Nome, Alaska, for American River and Budd Creek about eighty-five miles north of Nome, August 10, 1936, to inspect Harry Dobson's ground there; Hans Mirow, aviator and Pastor Woods as fellow passenger, who was on his way...
Image appears to be identical to uaa-hmc-0166-b1-85-8-1. The caption for that image reads: "Guerin's pack train starting for Demarcation Point along the Arctic beach. August 1, 1912." Guerin is identified elsewhere in the album as Watt Guerin,...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Facing always the possibility of fragments breaking off some ice-capped edge and starting avalanches above them the weary army of gold seekers toiled on to...