(10:14 min.) (09 of 09)
Learning about the barging business
Eskimo boy hunting; beach; tied up the boat; land downstream on the barge; Demientieff, Martha; summer; advice; barge business; safety net; schooling; adventure; educated children in both...
Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Shows ocean currents, routes of sailing vessels, coast and sea ice. Shows continental surface characteristics including bioregions, glaciers and mountain ranges. Shows...
Title taken from caption. "11503 -- (9) Those who have never witnessed the breaking up of the ice on the lakes and rivers in the interior of Alaska, will find it difficult to appreciate the enormous quantity of ice which moves with the opening...
Title taken from label on matting. View of Clavean home and garden in Anchorage, Alaska. Also on label: "In the garden grow cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, currents, beets, gooseberries, lettuce, onions, potatoes, red raspberries, rhubarb,...
View of tourist on giant block of ice at Arctic Ocean, Point Barrow, Alaska. From verso: "Giant ice cakes are thrust up in pressure ridges on the Arctic Ocean off Point Barrow. This photo shows a tourist by one of them. Many visitors this winter...
Map of proposed Knik Arm Causeway near Anchorage, Alaska. Geographical notations on map include: "Big Susitna River Delta. New international airport. Pt. McKenzie. Goose Lake. Knik Lake. Knik Bay. City dock. Anchorage. Pt. Woransoff [sic]. Fire...
Designed to overcome the 30-foot tides, crushing ice, and strong currents of Alaska's Cook Inlet, this "monopod" drilling rig owned by Marathon Oil Company and Union Oil Company of California is positioned over the partner's discovery well at the...
Topp, Roger (photographer). Video, 31 seconds MPG format. This auklet is largely confined to the Bering Sea region, where it typically nests in huge colonies on islands near cold, saline water currents. Colonies of 250,000 or more of the species...