(2:49 min.) (11 of 20) How train/ship developed--Mr. Skinner--first container shipping industry in the world--Too expensive for American flagged ships--City of New Orleans (Ship) Renamed Alaska (Ship)--denied American registry--Clair Engle...
(6:08 min.) (12 of 20) How train/ship developed--Mr. Skinner--first container shipping industry in the world--Too expensive for American flagged ships--City of New Orleans (Ship) Renamed Alaska (Ship)--denied American registry--Clair Engle...
Container for milk made by Matanuska Maid, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska. Printing on container reads: "Vitamin enriched Alaska's best. One quart. Matanuska Maid. Fresh daily. Pasteurized grade "A" homogenized milk. Build Alaska. Buy the best. Buy...
Container for sour cream made by Matanuska Maid Dairy, Anchorage, Alaska. Printing on container reads: "Matanuska Maid. Grade "A" pasteurized sour cream. 8 oz. liquid. [?] by Matanuska Maid Dairy, Anchorage, Alaska." June 12, 1957. Photographer:...
Deep, oval shaped birch bark container. Double layered and sewn with split spruce root. Rim rods of green willow branches. 6" h x 11" l x 7 1/2" w. OR 12.5 cm x 28.5 cm x 19.5 cm.
12/6/2011: In the paper file the "place" is listed as...
Hardwood stem with poured lead stem and bowl; 9.25 in. long; a very worn leather bag full of tobacco is attached to neck of bowl by means of leather thong; other end of thong is attached to small leather container; a short length of brass chain is...
Hardwood stem with poured lead stem and bowl; 9.25 in. long; a very worn leather bag full of tobacco is attached to neck of bowl by means of leather thong; other end of thong is attached to small leather container; a short length of brass chain is...
Interior of the mill building at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company Independence Mine. Photograph shows Charlie Porter with a container of mercury in his hand, in the process of adding mercury to the ball mill. Original photograph...
Large birch bark container with handle; 9 1/2" tall; sealskin strap handle attached at sides; sealskin patches at pressure points on bottom; tear mended with sinew; shows use; dirty.
Written in pencil on side: "Merry Xmas to Olive Glover(?)...
Large, folded birch bark container found floating in the Ambler River. Willow rim rods and lashing of spruce root, and a rope, possibly cotton, tied along one of the long sides of the basket, possibly a handle. 20cm x 40cm x 28cm.
Photo shows Fagen, a mine worker, checking a sump pump in Independence Mine. A container labelled "Prestone Antifreeze" is visible in the shot. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 32 seconds, MPG-1 format. The crew butchers the seal. One has to remove the excess blood into a container. Vernon Brower (Pauyuueraq) helps...
The sides are made one piece of shaped wood; 2.375 in. tall; base fitted in; each side has 3 pieces that are 2.375 in. long in ivory; sewn on with baleen; strip of twisted root across container holds sides in; 6 small pieces of ivory 1.375 in. sewn...
This dome shaped type of tent is called a Qalluvik in Iñupiaq. Willows for the frame were collected inland, around Atqasuk, then bent into curved shape and tied together to make tent frame. It was then covered with canvas. (Early Iñupiaq tents...
This photograph depict Harold and Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy's dog, Ruslan, lying in the snow beside a black horse. The horse is pulling a sled with a large metal container on it that contains water for the Pomeroys' homestead at Bear Cove on...
This photograph depicts a shipping container being unloaded by crane from the S.S. Tonsina onto an Alaska Railroad car, circa 1971. There are men standing in the foreground. The location is unidentified, as is the photographer.
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy and an unidentified man examining tools at Harold's homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, in 1962. Harold is bending over a man who is kneeling on the ground in front of a...