62 second film clip, color with audio track narration Clip shows the harvesting ice from lakes near Barrow, Alaska. Narration describes the harvesting, processing and use of ice for drinking water and other domestic purposes.
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.
Photograph of a soldier named Arnold, who is from Brooklyn, NY, holding a pipe and a New York edition of a magazine entitled Holiday. Arnold is standing at the door to the headquarters of the Adak Air Force Station Hospital.
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.
View of Christine M. McClain having breakfast with Father James E. Poole and several military personnel in St. Marys, Alaska. Caption reads "St. Mary Fr. Poole". Photo taken between 1963 and 1969. Original photograph size: 10" x 7 3/4".
Title taken from verso. Lorene Harrison and piano player surrounded by service men singing from sheet music at "Sunday Nite Sing-a-long" at USO building in Anchorage, Alaska. Also from verso: "BMP-14. Signal Corps U.S. Army, official photograph."...
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 taken from verso. Men gathered around large reproduction of Time magazine cover featuring Alaska Governor Mike Stepovich at Republican Party headquarters in Anchorage, Alaska. From magazine cover: "Twenty-five cents. June 9, 1958. Time, the...