View of Gus Owen pulling a crucible from the Independence Mine, Alaska assay furnace. From caption: "Gus Owen pulling crucible from assay furnace." 1939.
2 min, 10 sec film clip, color/silent. Gold dust is poured from a bag into a gold pan. There are shots of a smelting furnace, men operating the furnace, a hot gold ingot, molten gold being poured into a mold, and a cooled ingot being shaped...
View of machinery in the 2000-level portal shops at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. To the right of the photo is a compressed air driven forging machine used for forming and sharpening integral drill steels and to the...
A group of people gathered in someone's home, possibly. Eight women and two men have gathered. One lady in the front right looks to be knitting. There is an old stove, oven or furnace to the far right of the picture.
Relief shown pictorially. Shows Hudson's Bay & Great Lakes area, including southern tip of Greenland & Baffin Island. From Cape Blanco north there is only a dotted line extending to the northeast toward Rankin Inlet, with no indication of the...
Title taken from accompanying note. "North Slope, 1971 [Surfcote, 1971]." A man in a yellow hard hat and goggles stands in an equipment room in front of what may be an furnace or air-heating system (left).
Title taken from front. Men working at Alaska Engineering Commission railroad bridge construction site on Tanana River in Alaska, with pile driver and furnace at right. Also from front: "A.E.C. H165." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Title taken from front. View of workers digging pits for concrete piers for Alaska Engineering Commission railroad bridge over Tanana River in Alaska, with steam shovel in center, pile driver and furnace at right, log building and railroad tracks...