Title from verso. Photograph of an oil rig and its reflection.
Verso reads: Oil rig of the Alaskamber Oil Company on Mirror Slough, Bering River Oil Fields, Alaska. The well is down 300 feet. Work is being carried on at present---July...
Title from verso. Full verso caption reads: "NCCo. [indexer note: Northern Commercial Company] dock at St. Michael, note old river steamer boilers holding it up. Docking consists partially of ASSCo. [ indexer note: Alaska Steamship Company]...
Title taken from caption. "Carlson House and Store Photo, Cantwell Alaska. Hewitt's Photo (after 1939: Road painted off Carlson's sign)". Heavy knee deep snow fall.
Title taken from caption "Gibson's Auto double tires for running in deep snow." Indexer's note: This may be a car belonging to early Fairbanks businessman Thomas Gibson.
Title taken from caption. "9324 -- (42) The pioneer white settler at Skagway located there in 1891, yet the first ship load of Yukon argonauts who landed on that beach in July, 1897, saw few signs of human habitations. Today four splendid...
Title taken from caption. Photographer's number: D8." Cataloguer's note: A portrait of a woman with deep set eyes, and a grave expression which seems to reveal a life of hardship.
Title taken from accompanying notes: "The Path to the College about March 10th 1929 in windy weather at 35 below zero. Snow about 3 feet deep on the average. Bunnell Collection."
This Settlement which is located deep in the valley is surrounded by numerous mountains. A closer look at this area reveals that this may have been a mining settlement. Notice in the center of the picture, what looks like transverse riffles,...
Title taken from donor's caption. "At Tonsina 90 miles from Valdez. The spot we selected for our camp was in a small grove of spruce trees at the head of a deep valley where two glaciers came down out of the towering mountains. We built a large...
Title taken from donor's caption. "The two horses at left have stepped off into deep water and have been caught by the current. All these Alaskan glacier streams are swift water. No rowing was necessary as the current varied from three or four...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia posing on McCarthy Creek." The trail was vague and difficult. We had to ford the stream a dozen times, not dangerous water but deep enough to reach to the knees. When we finally reached Donahoe's...
Title from caption in album. A railroad station surrounded by deep snow piles and snow drifts. There are smokestacks on the station building and telegraph poles visible along the rail tracks.
Title taken from caption; clarified by cataloger.
Photogarph of the WAMCATS bridge at mile 88 after a forest fire burned the area. Hand written note on this photo reads: Note: These bridges were necessary acct 'spongs' sloughs or sluggish...