View of drill operation, with compressors on left in foreground and drills stretched out in background; drills spreads could be strung out nearly a half-mile
A miner in a makeshift tent stands with pick and hatchet in hand at Seward, Alaska. A drill and steel are on his left and sticks of blasting powder are on the ground in front of him. 1910? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5...
Title from caption. Photograph of a corner of the Stevens Village school dedicated to tool useage. Narrative in photo album reads: "Below -- corner of school room in Stevens Village where I taught boys & girls the use of tools."
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "Charlie Ayapana, a Little Diomede man married to a Point Hope woman, was by far the most skilled ivory-carver in town." A small child is peeking around the corner, watching the work.
Title taken from caption. "First Coal mine on Lignite Creek. April 15th, 1918. Photographer's number: 112, A.J. Johnson official photographer for A.E.C (Alaskan Engineering Commission)."
Charlie White and Jack Hoare in the Ruff & Tuff gold mine, drilling holes in the tunnel face. Both gold miners are wearing hard hats with lamps. Original photograph size: 5 3/4" x 4".
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy using a hand-drill to drill a hole in a piece of wood at his homestead on Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula in 1951. There is another drill lying on the wood in the foreground of the...
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....