Title taken from caption. Cataloger's note: This mining site appears to be in full operation. In the center a load of dirt is being dumped; to the right, water is gushing from the elevated sluicing boxes, and onto the piles of tailings below.
Title taken from caption. 1937 or 38 ? Mastodon Creek (way ahead after creek) Placer Mining operation. Elevated boxes used very efficiently. Pay dirt and lots of rocks (schist slabs) was dumped by the dragline into well constructed box with...
Title from slide index prepared by Peter Haase 14 July 2006. "Pete and the Piper Super Cub. Cliff & I took on the initial flight out of Northway. Note the snowshoes tied to the wing struts (not allowed in the southern 48, but in alaska, rules...
Title taken from caption. View of area where waste from "honey buckets" is dumped in Hooper Bay, Alaska. Also from caption: "Hooper Bay, AK." Written on slide: "Garbage bunker, Hooper Bay. 4/66." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. April 1966?...
Title taken from caption. View of the dig site near Unalaska. Soil removed from the cut was dumped over the edge of the hill. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
This photograph depicts Harold and Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy sawing lumber at the sawmill on their homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, in 1956. There is a pile of sawdust in the foreground. The title is taken from...