(3:05 min.) (11 of 12) Working behind the scenes -- behind the Convention and the effects of the Constitution on Alaska inexperience -- parliamentary law; rules; behind the scenes; 6 men -- spoke at length; time to think; delegates -- speaking...
(3:55 min.) (03 of 24) 03 Worked for Alaska Steamship Co. during WWII Laid cable for Alaska Communication System [ACS]. Worked on a troop transport (possibly the Chinook Victory). Delivered soldiers to and from Truck Island; the ship...
(6:56 min.) (23 of 24) 23 Cannery runs
A ship would take up the crews and the empty cans in the spring. Filipino workers were in the majority. In the fall, the cannery workers and the fish would come back. The Swedish fishermen were...
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
1954 Roll 1.Title taken from accompanying inventory. Tlingit Indian name first reported in 1849 by Captain Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkof, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), governor of Russian America (1852, map 7) as Reka Akve or Akve River and since...
40 second, color/silent film clip. Clip shows a system, made mostly of logs, for getting the contents of mine carts down to a road via a chute and hopper. The system appears to be under construction.
5 maps on one sheet. Engraved for Millar's New complete & universal system of geography. Components: Chart of the new Northern Archipelago; discover'd by the Russians in the seas of Kamtschatka & Anadir -- Chart of the Canary Isles &c. -- Chart...
5 maps on one sheet. Relief shown pictorially. "Engraved for Millar's New Complete & Universal System of Geography." Components: Chart of the new northern archipelago, discovered by the Russians in the seas of Kamtschatka & Anadir -- Chart of...
8x10 photo. Title from handwritten note on verso. Full note reads:
"L to R Dispatcher Tom Devane, Capt Al Monsen, Oper Mgr Emmer Bassett, Capt S[.]E[.]Robbins Main Mgr Loren Fernald, [Sta. Mgr?] Clark Bassett, [Mail Spur?] Fred...
"Dediee et presente au roy par son tres humble, tres obeysant, et tres fidele serviteur et sujet Louis Claude de Vezou." "Gravee par J. Lattre." Includes 11 circular charts showing solar and lunar eclipses, positions of the horizon, and models of...
Aerial of fishing vessel "Granny Rosa" stretching its end of containment boom during the boom deployment test, Ship Escort and Response Vessel System (SERVS) - Valdez Harbor.