(3:22 min.) (02 of 24) 02 Dellwood returned to cable ship duty. Laid cable from Seattle, Washington to Adak, Alaska. Fell overboard and almost drowned. Stripped down and kept moving to avoid freezing. Sergeant found a dugout and they...
Man on the left uses a tool that resembles a metal garden hoe. The other men are using metal scraping tools, called "tuggaun" in Iñupiaq, which are the same tools used to butcher a whale. Scraping is made easier by freezing the skin.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Title from accompanying materials. Notes with image: Jack McCord and I had just returned from a trip up the Tolovana River. A chief of the Tolovana tribe and one of his friends welcomed us on our return. It was on this trip that Jack McCord...
Typewritten on recto: "March 7th, 1917. View shows ice 15' thick formed around and under Dock #2 at mouth of Ship Creek. This ice is anchored to flats by freezing, and is not flooded by high tides, and therefore...
Title taken from album. "Water Man 62 (degrees) below zero." Indexer's note - The severe cold is apparent by the heavy ice fog which seems to veil the photograph. The horses have blankets and protective face masks. The water appears to be...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Wineman, Gebhard, Guggenheim, Connor, May and Seashore." Portrait of the 1937 expedition members. From May's journal, dated June 18th: "We landed from the launch... and as it was fairly bright the...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Flood plain ice formed from freezing of winter seepage overflow. On Joe Creek about a half a mile below crossing of 141st meridian. July 7, 1912. This ice was not noted in 1911 and seems to...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Flood plain ice formed from freezing of winter seepage overflow. On Joe Creek about a half a mile below crossing of 141st meridian. July 7, 1912. This ice was not noted in 1911 and seems to...
Title taken from creator's notes. Photograph with the following caption: A short walk west from Cushman down 1st street brings you to the L. B. Mercantile water system storage tank. Water customers also had to pay for the steam lines that ran...
Title taken from stereograph. "246-(11530) -- Arctic City is near the Arctic Circle on a branch of the Yukon River. You would know by everything in this view that you are in a cold climate. In the background are the snow-covered mountains with...
Title taken from verso. View of halibut freezing and packing plant, Seward, Alaska. Also from verso: "Halibut all frozen here and shipped to states." Photographer's number 332. Summer 1923. Photographers: C.J. Blanchard and Ray B. Dame. Original...
U.S. Government Reindeer Project manager Joe Chase and Project engineer Fred Chase holding frozen reindeer entrails in cold storage room at Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak...