Written on front: To my friend Ernest Gruening with best wishes William E. Beltz. Verso: William Ernest Beltz, a 47 year-old native of the Eskimo village of Unalakleet, is president of the Alaskan State Senate as Alaska makes the complicated...
Writing on image: Big Flats, Lake level raised. Photographer's number A.8. Alaska Electric Light and Power Company (AEL&P), Juneau, acquired the Alaska - Juneau Gold Mining Company properties, including their photographs of the mining...
Woman in gold rush era costume sits on bar pouring drink with painting of dancers on wall in background and liquor bottles on shelf behind her during "Bonanza Days" events in Anchorage, Alaska. From caption: "Connie Phillips on the bar." Some signs...
Winter view of street in Valdez, Alaska, with snow berms towering over the sidewalk and pedestrians on the sidewalks. Two dogs are visible in the center of the photograph and a large clock in the shape of a pocket watch hangs over the street. Signs...
Wheels, of a size to dwarf the men standing next to them, support a platform with an apparatus designed for gold mining, perhaps used in hydraulic mining; it appears to be on sandy beach
View of William M. Stoll (left) and his brother, Walter Stoll, at the 700 foot-level portal of Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. The two men are standing in front of the entrance to a drift on the Independence vein, called...
View of unidentified man with gold pan and shovels standing in a river. Possibly identified as Harry Dobson, possibly identified as American River. Probably circa 1936.
View of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mine, July 1924. Mill, mine buildings, rail road and tailings are visible. Original photograph size: 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch.
View of signs in Valdez, Alaska. Signs read: "Motel Valdez Alaska small boat launching area", and "Have fun at Valdez the Switzerland of Alaska. Valdez is the farthest north, ice free port, on the North American continent. Columbia Glacier &...
View of Rusty Heurlien (probably Heurlin) holding gold retort sponge at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. Gold retort sponge is produced when gold amalgam is heated to separate the gold from the mercury contained in the...
View of people crowded around registration tables at 14th Annual Flower Show sponsored by Anchorage Garden Club and held in First National Bank of Anchorage lobby at 4th Avenue and G Street in Anchorage, Alaska. Flowers on table include dahlias....
View of gold miners and dogs loaded with packs filled with gold preparing to depart from Chistochina, Alaska. From verso: "Taken at Chistochina Mutt [?] station. Notice the jacks on the men and dogs. The horses carry the bedding and carry outfit....