Title taken from front. Sled dog teams line up on Fourth Avenue in front of Brown & Hawkins after bringing a load of gold dust in from the Iditarod gold fields, Seward, Alaska. From front: "1/2 ton gold dust largest shipment ever carried by dog...
Four men play cards with stacks of chips visible. A notice at the upper right reminds the card player that playing cards for money or value is strictly forbidden. Ed Kelly is identified as 2nd from right a Mr. Rose is also identified.
Title from verso. Image shows a fox inside an animal pen at the fox farm on Kayak Island.Trees, part of the fox's house and part of the wire fence around the pen can be seen. Photo may have been taken by Calvin F. Townsend, a U.S. Bureau...
Shows gold production for different locations by dollar value. Includes notes from the Chamber of Commerce regarding population and potential development. "Compiled from maps by United States Geological Survey". Library copy missing lower left...
River boat Yukon's first trip of 1923, with a close up view of the barges full of 1,000 tons of gold ore from the Mayo district with a value of $500,000.
Title by indexer. Photo caption: "Venus the Milo in solid gold, cast by the Washington Alaska Bank of Fairbanks, Alaska by J. Adams, assayor gold produced from 2 below Ester owned by H. G. C. Baldry. Value $49,750", [A. J. Johnson] is faded in...
Title from caption. Photograph of a rock formation on the banks of the Cheyenne River made by the Thermopolis Hot Springs. Narrative in photo album read: "Below mineral deposit on the bank of the Cheyenne River n Wyoming. It has all the...
(3:11 min.) (08 of 12) Pork-Barrel appointment to judgeships and reactions to Ada being a part of the Constitutional Convention Fairbanks -- before Statehood; territorial form of government -- people had no voice; Washington DC -- grant favors;...
(5:15 min.) (05 of 27) Alaska Road Commission
Alaska Road Commission -- access in Alaska authority of U. S. Army. Started with authority to create WAMCATS. Three Army officers were to maintain building roads and trails, almost no...
100 second film clip, color and black & white with an audio track. The clip shows damage from the 1964 Earthquake and the resulting tsunami. The audio track remarks on the dollar value of the damage, the loss of industry and effects on the...
Title taken from caption. "9195 -- (28) The difficulty of crossing lofty mountain ranges gives great importance to notches or passes in their tops through which travel and traffic may go with less effort than over their crests. The heavy snows...
Title taken from caption. "Venus the Milo in solid Gold, cast by the Washington, Alaska Bank of Fairbanks, Alaska. By J. Adams, Assayor [assayer] Gold produced from 2 below Ester owned by H.G.C. Baldry value $49,750."
Title taken from caption. " T. V. Smith's catch, Middleton Island, Alaska, 71 blue fox skins, value about $2,000.00. Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. G3592. Reproduced from glass plate.
Daryl Miller is interviewed by Dave Krupa on April 27, 2000 in Talkeetna, Alaska. Miller discusses his personal background and how he was introduced to climbing; his first climbing experience on Denali; not summitting on his first attempt and the...
Title taken from caption. "E. A. Suter's Large Nugget, [weight] 82 [oz.?] Value $1250. Found in Kantishna, Alaska. Photo by Johnson." Black & white photo.
Title taken from caption. "'Venus of Milo'. Solid Tanana Gold, Weight 400 Oz. Value $ 7225.00. Made by the Washington Alaska Bank, Fairbanks, Alaska Sept. 18th [19]07."
Title taken from front. Large gold nugget found by Pioneer Mining Company at Discovery claim on Anvil Creek, Nome, Alaska, worth $3276.00 and weighing 182 ounces. Sept. 8, 1903. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Title taken from front. Large gold nugget found by Pioneer Mining Company near the Discovery claim at Anvil Creek, Nome, Alaska, worth $3276.00 and weighing 182 ounces. Sept. 8, 1903. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Title taken from front. Large gold nugget weighing 182 ounces and valued at $3276.00, found by Pioneer Mining Company at Discovery claim, Anvil Creek, Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number C156. Sept. 8, 1903. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.