Title taken from caption. "11560 -- (38) The Klondike district, as well as other camps in the interior of Alaska, has a method of placer mining different from that which prevails in other sections of the United States. The ground, which is...
Title and spelling taken from caption. View of a man walking along a beach on Kodiak Island. There is a building in the background. From May's journal, dated May 28th: "For the purpose of the identification of artifacts, the site is divided into...
Title taken from front. Group of men standing in trench showing depth of soil near Chickaloon Branch, Alaska Engineering Commission Railway, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G990." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Title taken from front. View of snow depth and Alaska Engineering Commission construction worker in canyon at mile 271 of Alaska Northern Railway in Southcentral Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G-1555." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Title taken from verso. Group of Alaska State Highway workers checking ice depth on Yukon River downstream from ice bridge during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. March 9, 1970. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original...
Title taken from verso. Workers using drills to check ice depth on Yukon River during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. 1975-1976? Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Ms., mounted on cardboard. Relief shown by shading; depths shown by soundings. Depth in sazhens [approx. 2.13 meters], from the chart of Mr. La Perouse, supplemented from the surveys of Captain Lieutenant Zarembo. Signed, with annotations, by...
Ms., mounted on linen. Depths shown by soundings. Tracing of Bucareli Bay, showing coastlines and depth soundings but no place names. Signed by George Davidson.
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
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Barging on the river
barging; river history; summer -- Galena; hauling 140 ton loads; river trips; whole life on river; Holy Cross; freight; Nenana; Yukon; million gallon barge; Nenana; Fairbanks; Core of Engineers; Chena...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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48 second, color/silent, film clip of a naval ship in anti-submarine maneuvers. From the film "Report from the Aleutians", directed and narrated by John Huston while he was a captain in the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
Title taken from text. Album caption: An unsuccessful attempt to get a view of the "Glory Hole", a crater about 500 feet in depth, six or eight miles below McCallum. The line runs down into this hole and is a source of frequent interruption. ...
Title from caption. Photograph of tripod telegraph poles across a lake. Caption reads: Tripods made of 25 ft poles across small lake five feet in depth near 85. Built on the ice and settled as ice melted in spring. But little aligning found...