Four laborers haul Tovex (explosive agent) on their shoulders, climbing steep slope to begin preparing drill holes; road and construction vehicles in background
Made: Russia
Used: St. Michael
Found: Unalaska
Culture: Russian
Description: iron; wood; brass
Descriptive Narrative: Small cannon labeled "Russian cannon from St. Michael". Iron barrel is 36" long x approx. 4-1/2"...
Title taken from verso. Post mistress and Wien Alaska Airlines agent Christine Steve stands in front of United States Post Office in Stebbins, Alaska. Sign reads: "Stebbins Post Office, Alaska." Original photograph size: 5" x 3".
Title from verso. "Clyde Armistead serving his Sikorsky flying boat. From a Noel Ross negative." A man is seen pouring something into the aircraft. Inscription on the side of the plane reads: Agent for [Exploration] Erskine. (May be Clyde G....
Title by indexer. Various notes, possibly from the publisher, adorn this collage. The circular stamp in the center reads: "United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey. Alaska Game Commission." Other notes in the back...
(5:17 min) (01 of 25) Start in Alaska shipping Alaska Steamship Company; California -- moved from; trucking business; Vancouver, British Columbia; vacation ; fishing boat; June -- 1948; Prince Rupert Island; Ketchikan; employment; salmon --...
(5:31 min.) (20 of 20) End--Being an agent in Nome--easily accepted--air travel takes over passenger transport--going out of business--disposition of property--destruction of documents
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows two men with a dog sled team standing on the frozen Kuskokwim River. The wing of an airplane can just barely be seen on the right. Caption from finding aid reads "Fur game agent and dog sled driver along...