61 second film clip, black & white silent Clip shows gold miners panning, using rocker boxes and sluice boxes. Narration describes small-scale gold mining.
The Alaska History Nugget series was created in 2004-2005 as a cooperative...
Title taken from stereograph. "246-(11530) -- Arctic City is near the Arctic Circle on a branch of the Yukon River. You would know by everything in this view that you are in a cold climate. In the background are the snow-covered mountains with...
Title taken from note with photo. "Oil tanks burning in Valdez AK., following the Alaska Earthquaek [Earthquake] 3/27/64." Thick, black smoke covers the sky except for a small opening.
Title from accompanying notes. "Camp 1 at night: American tents and Mt. Bona. There are four tents in this image. The 3 yellow tents, illuminated from gas lanterns inside the tents are obvious. The 4th tent is black (obviously a black sheep in...
Photo caption "Bob taking motor wing covers off #71". View of Bob Reeve, owner/founder/pilot of Reeve Airways, later Reeve Aleutian Airways, working on one of his planes.
Interior shot of the South Seas bar & dance room. The roof is thatched with bamboo or cane strips and supported by bamboo poles; a tapa cloth panel is partially visible. Cane tables and chairs fill the room. A large mural showing monkeys on...
Two servicemen pose for a photograph on a vehicle used for towing aircraft. Verso: "Left to right: Charles Nicholls and Weldon Preddy." Marsden matting (interlocked steel plates) covers the ground. Original photograph size: 4 x 5 3/4 inch.
A flight crew from the 77th Bombardier Squadron (Eleventh Air Force) stands beside a plane on the runway at Adak. Left to right: Weldon Preddy, Joe Fontaine, and Ken Wood. Marsden matting (steel interlocked plates) covers the ground. Original...
Title taken from caption. From verso: "Uyak – 1936 Pots on point." View of excavated checkalinas, or storage containers. From May's journal, dated June 13th: "I found a good lamp, some points and three chekalinas. ...These chekalinas are dishes...
View of damage to a building in Anchorage, Alaska after the March 27, 1964 earthquake. Sign on building reads (F)ederal Aviation Agency. The word Building is written over the door. A man wearing a hard hat is entering the building. On the left, a...
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Snow covers damage from March 27, 1964 earthquake in Turnagain area, Anchorage, Alaska, with Mount Susitna in background across Knik Arm. From verso: "Property of the Cook Inlet Historical Society." Photographer's number 900. March 1964....
Title from sleeve. A man stands on the sidewalk in front of the downtown offices of Cordova Airlines in Cordova, AK. A sign on the door reads 'Ticket Office.' The building is undergoing exterior renovation, and two ladders are propped against the...
Title supplied by cataloger. On photographs: Eve's town shots, Aug. '48 & '49. Three people stand next to a wooden picket fence looking out over Cook Inlet towards Mount Susitna, or Sleeping Lady. Snow covers the fence. 4x5 contact print, 4x5 neg
Title supplied by cataloger. Vi holds the seal pup in her arms. A scarf covers her head. A small wooden building and an automobile are visible on the road in the background.
Title from caption on slide Crew work from rubber boat and skiff to adjust containment boom, during continuing clean-up efforts after Exxon Valdez oil spill; snow covers ground beyond shore in background