Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Annotated by George Davidson with notes, place names and permutations of the Alaska-Canada boundary. "Aids to navigation corrected for information received to Feb. 16, 1903." ...
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "P. 4 OIL. 3 col x 22 PICA. "Moose Creek Test---." Across the model is a section of the future Moose Creek Dam, with the outlet works on the Chena River in the center. Alaskan visitors are watching the flow...
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "P. 5 OIL. 1 1/2 col x 18 PICA. "Dam bed---." Fairbanks Resident Engineer truck on the foundation of the northern section of Moose Creek Dam. Higher level at right is the dam's future access road. 65. 18."...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "South borrow pit, site of a possible future irregularly shaped recreation lake. Verso also stamped with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers logo and the date Sept. 1974. Photo is taken from a fixed-wing...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "As gravel is removed from the south borrow pit for use in the dam foundation and embankment, the outline of a possible future recreation lake takes form." Verso also stamped with U.S. Army Corps of...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Bridge across the Chena, part of the access road built by the Corps' contractor working on the north portion of the Moose Creek Dam foundation. This is downstream from the site of the future outlet works." ...
(2:12 min.) (12 of 12) Final comments for the record -- proud of Alaska; working within the government; obtained Statehood -- without revolution; Alaska -- finest state in the Union; delegates -- thinking of the future; resources -- Natives;...
Title taken from caption. "9204 -- (20) We have in this view an extraordinary realistic panorama of the Dyea Trail just before it passes the track of the fatal avalanche. The scene is indeed rugged, bleak and uninviting, and the trail...
Title taken from caption. "9358 -- (36) We frequently see published statements to the effect that the aborigines are rapidly disappearing, but the scene here depicted contradicts such an assertion. The eleven youthful Esquimaux who make up the...
The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
Title taken from creator's notes. Color photograph. Notes read: The Daily News Miner office-fronted 2nd street, as seen here, and had a back loading dock on 1st street. This office was destroyed by a flood in 1967. After this flood, the...
Title taken from caption. View of four men in front of a sign, one of them holding a microphone and a shovel, at a groundbreaking ceremony. Caption also reads: "L[eft]/R[ight,] Mayor George H. Byer, [Charles] Laughton, Frank Brink, Director of...
Title taken from caption. View of four men in front of a sign, one of them holding a shovel and digging while the others watch, at a groundbreaking ceremony. Caption also reads: "L[eft]/R[ight,] Mayor George H. Byer, [Charles] Laughton, Frank...
View of the new Alaska Sales and Service building with earthquake damage. Sign reads: "Future home of Alaska Sales and Service. Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Cadillac, GMC. OK Used Cars. One of the northwest (sic) largest complete automotive...
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.
Amid the clearing of rubble from March 27, 1964 earthquake, Anchorage, Alaska, a hopeful sign on 4th Avenue reads: "Open soon new location - S & F Foodland Spenard. Hobby Lobby." From verso: "Property of the Cook Inlet Historical Society."...
Title taken from front. View of tents on future site of Market Street in new town of Nenana, Alaska. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 29. Aug. 24, 1916. Photographer: A.J. Johnson. Original photograph size: 4 3/4" x 6...
Title taken from front. View of future site of Second Street in new town of Nenana, Alaska. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 30. Aug. 24, 1916. Photographer: A.J. Johnson. Original photograph size: 4 3/4" x 6 3/4".
Title taken from front. View of tents and buildings at future site of A Street in new town of Nenana, Alaska. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 28. Aug. 24, 1916. Photographer: A.J. Johnson. Original photograph size: 4...
Title taken from front. Future site of First Street in new town of Nenana, Alaska, with tents in background. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 31. Aug. 24, 1916. Photographer: A.J. Johnson. Original photograph size: 4...