Title taken from verso. View of drilling rig set up at site for Tess and Walter Holmes' house in May Creek area near McCarthy, Alaska. 1945? Original photograph size: 6 1/2" x 8 1/2".
Aerial view of west end of Park Strip between 9th and 10th Avenues during soils study drilling after March 27, 1964 earthquake, Anchorage, Alaska. From verso: "Anchorage - shows soils study drilling - left - Bootlegger Cove. Property of the Cook...
Title taken from verso. View of men with soil coring machinery drilling for samples in permafrost tundra at Chandalar Bench, Alaska, in preparation for Trans-Alaska pipeline construction, with helicopter in right background. Aug. 1970....
Title taken from verso. Construction crew with drilling machinery during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction down the hill from Old Man Camp, south of Arctic Circle near Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge in Interior Alaska. June 1975. Photographer:...
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...
The world's first single-leg drilling platform, called a monopod, was designed for Marathon Oil company and its partner to be used in developing the Trading Bay Field in Alaska. Seven foot model shows portions of the com=lately equipped platform...
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...