Verso: "4 - Route 7D". A steam shovel or similar excavator works in the foreground; in the background are a tractor, a car, and apparently the back of a pickup truck.
Includes key and extensive notes. Data from the Third Alaska College Bering Sea - St. Lawrence Island Expedition, 1931 & 1932. 3 maps on one sheet. Components: Plan view of excavation -- Elevation of excavation -- Plan view of recent house. ...
Title from caption. Photograph shows a drag line excavator loading ballast near Nenana, Alaska. A man stands in the freight car that the ballast is being loaded into. There is firewood on the back of the excavator to fuel the machine. Caption...
6 min, 22 sec film clip, color/silent. Footage includes: men operating a hydraulic "giant", men drilling thaw points, interior and exterior operations of a gold dredge, excavation by bulldozer and steam shovel, men sluicing gold and scooping...
Title taken from caption. "Drag line excavator loading ballast near Nenana, Alaska. August 24th, 1917." This is an Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 67. August 24, 1917. Photographer: A. J. Johnson.
Title taken from caption. "Drag line excavator loading ballast near Nenana, Alaska. August 24, 1917." This is an Alaskan Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 68. Photographer: A. J. Johnson.
Title from caption. "Klery Cr. - Mining Scene - Rt. 41 - 8/10/ [illegible]". A man seems to be panning for gold in a ditch created by a steam shovel (at the end of the trench). Several men watch the man panning.
Title from verso. Technical sergeant "Mill" Plum poses beside another serviceman (Tony) holding a jackhammer. Text on top left of image: "Tony Mill Aug 44." Original photograph size: 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 inch. Aleutians.
Technical sergeant "Mill" Plum holding a wheelbarrow filled with rock; two other servicemen look on. One is holding a shovel. Text on upper left of photo: "Aug 44". Verso: "Aug -44. One of my many side-lines up here. - Yes! I have a license to...
Joe Antic (left) and technical sergeant "Mill" Plum (right) pose for a photograph beside a piece of machinery, possibly a compressor. Two signs on the machine say "Gardner Denver". Joe Antic is wearing a helmet. Another serviceman can be seen...
Title taken from caption. Alan May, William Clemes, and William S. Laughlin excavating. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of archaeological dig site. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. View of archaeological dig site. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.