View of one of two four-cell flotation machine banks in the mill at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. Gold-bearing bulk sulphide concentrates from these machines were dewatered, sacked, and shipped for smelting to the...
Interior shot showing two mill workers, Chuck Porter and Leonard Johnson, shoveling and bagging flotation cell concentrates at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's Independence Mine. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Close up shot of a reagent feeder (a device that adds chemicals to flotation cells) at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's Independence Mine. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Title taken from caption. Several men stand on the ice beside their boat at Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. A whale is floating in the water just offshore, held up by seal floats and secured by a rope leading to the ice. 1938-1941. Original...
Title taken from caption. A series of boats with whaling crews maneuver around ice floes during a whale hunt near Gambell, Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska. Many of the men are wearing white parkas. The boat nearest to the camera carries seal floats....
Two King Island, Alaska kayakers raft alongside a boat as they unload cargo, with a man sitting across the bows of the kayaks. Another man in a fur parka stands on a small platform looking down at the kayakers and a movie camera is partially...
Title taken from verso. View of house constructed of ice and a seal float. Six people dressed in traditional Native Alaskan clothing stand in front of the house. Also from verso: "Natives 'college kids' dressed as Eskimos. Otto Geist (the...
Title taken from verso. View of men welding flotation section on ACV (air cushion vehicle) at Yukon River bridge construction site during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction in Interior Alaska. Oct. 1974. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original...