Comments by R. N. De Armond: A good picture of the steamboat AURORA. One AURORA owned by Captain Williams, was reported at Rampart May 30, 1901, getting ready for a trip up the Tanana. She could carry 30 tons of freight and 10 passengers, which...
Comments by R. N. De Armond: The boat had an iron hull and was put together at-Saint Michael in 1898. She measured 49 tons gross. In 1944 the hull was in use as a barge by the Black Transportation Company (MacBride's list, Alaska Weekly 8/11/44)
Comments by R. N. De Armond: The boat had an iron hull and was put together at-Saint Michael in 1898. She measured 49 tons gross. In 1944 the hull was in use as a barge by the Black Transportation Company (MacBride's list, Alaska Weekly 8/11/44)
Comments by R. N. De Armond: . The name on the life ring is RESEARCH. The MacBride list (Alaska Weekly, 9/l/44) lists RESEARCH as being an iron hull with propeller. Went to the Koyukuk in 1898 and returned there in 1899; went to St. Michael in...
Full note reads: "Charlie Lee pulling logs for Collins' cabin up Quikcherk Creek with CAA tractor. Kobuk River." Additional comments from village presentations: "Quicksherk (misspelled). It might be spelled...
Men at Alaska Engineering Commission railroad construction site after explosion that killed construction contractor and construction worker and injured two other construction workers along Turnagain Arm in Alaska. Comments with arrows read:...
Comments from village presentations: "Bessie (Custer), Eleanor Cleveland, Margaret (Lee) Sheldon, Sara (Cleveland) Tickett, Evelyn Gray, Catherine Cleveland".
Comments from village presentations: "Taken in front of the school. Pictured here Larry Custer, Carryl Sun, Ruth Tickett, Sarah Tickett, Vera Cleveland, Walter Douglas?, Colonel Riley, Margeret (Lee) Sheldon, Eleanor...
Lettering on boat reads: "RUTH 31E842". Additional comments from village presentations read: "Harry Brown (white man) came up to the Upper Kobuk in the early 1940s. He owned the first store in Kobuk. He married...
Additional comments from village presentations read: "Harry Brown's 2-nd boat. Harry Brown is to the left of the picture. The boat was called the Bucky B. barge and it hauled barrels of fuel for the upriver...
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Winter road north from Eagle and Circle to the DEW line. Built by Alaska Freightline. LaTourneau trains, made for the desert, were not very successful here. Less paperwork makes for more fun in the...