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...
Title from caption. Photograph of a gold dredge. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above is a general view of a gold dredge. At center & right is shown the business end of the machine. Dredges are used in mining 'low pay' dirt. They float on...
Title from caption. Photograph of the front of a gold dredge. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above is a general view of a gold dredge. At center & right is shown the business end of the machine. Dredges are used in mining 'low pay' dirt. ...
Title from caption. Photograph of the buckets on a gold dredge. Narrative in photo album reads: "Above is a general view of a gold dredge. At center & right is shown the business end of the machine. Dredges are used in mining 'low pay'...
Title from image. Photograph of a dogsled team bringing freight to Quail Creek. Narrative in photo album reads: "Freighting above the timber line" "On the way from Rampart to the placer mining on Quail Creek."
Title from caption in album: "Sept 25 - Merrifield bringing ram to horses - From some point across bar of East Branch - Toklat horse in right". Photograph shows a couple of pack animals grazing on a hill overlooking a large river basin. A...
Title from verso. Photograph of a man speaking into a microphone connected to a loudspeaker; a megaphone is just to the right of the speaker. Verso reads: Attu -- Landing boats bringing American troops to the rocky shores of Attu,...
Title from verso. Aerial photograph of landing barges bringing supplies to the American forces fighting on Attu Island. Verso reads: "Attu -- Crates of supplies litter the beach of Attu as landing barges bring more supplies ashore to...
"The river steamer Yukon, with barge, bringing supplies for Ott and Scheel at Eagle, Alaska. June 4th 1928. You can be sure all the residents able to walk were down there to welcome her. The huge rock bluff called Chutatutla in the background." ...
Title from donor notes. Photograph showing a sod house in the foreground with the North Star off shore. Full donor notes read: "Department of the Interior supply ship "North Star" lying off the south beach on its annual fall visit...
(3:57 min.) (09 of 27) Denali Highway
One of the complaints is that the Road Commission did most of their own work and contracted out very little. There was no profit in bringing the equipment all the way here. Setting up base and...
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
(4:20 min.) (09 of 09) 9. After the convention. Les played a very valuable role in bringing people together. There was great camaraderie among the delegates. Les went home and showed his father a copy of the constitution. His father read...
Title from attached news release. Full news release reads: "Sid Hayman Manager, Service Department Alaska Steamship Company Pier 42 - MA 2-4530 (nights: WE 5-4250) Seattle, Washington May 6, 1965 For bringing their ship...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Roadhouse near Whitehorse in the Yukon Territory where Pat & I treated Rich to a T-bone steak dinner in payment (small that it was, but we were broke) for bringing us down to...