Title from caption. Photograph of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Caption reads: "This town is in Canadian Territory & practically the head of navigation for steamers of the class as seen in picture, -the upper Canadian terminus of the White...
This stereograph (or stereoview) depicts sluice boxes and other mining equipment set up at the No. 6 Eldorado gold mine in the Klondike River Valley in the Yukon Territory in Canada, circa 1896-1898. Behind the equipment are miners working and...
Title by indexer. Verso reads: "The wolf working with the dog team - notice the size of him compared to the rest of the team. Verso also bears a circular stamp that says: "A Madsen Print. Oct 10, 1933. Chicago." Image shows a team...
54 second film clip, black & white/silent, of a miner hauling wood to feed a steam engine. The steam was used to thaw the frozen ground and enable the miners to chip out the rock and earth. A bucket is seen coming out of a mine shaft and...
Title from margin notes. Photograph shows people sitting on a float during a Fairbanks Winter Carnival parade. The float is carrying a mock giant gold nugget in a gold pan. The float reads "Pioneers of Alaska" and "Igloo No. 4". Parade...
(4:02 min) (02 of 17) First job Bill Shoddy & George Gilbertson. Roomed at Francis Doyle's boarding house now National Bank of Alaska, in the Northward Building-$68 a month. Went to look at the University, if he enrolled at University room...
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...
Title taken from caption. "11555 -- (6) Judging from his suit and hood of fur and his team of dogs, we might mistake the boy in this picture for an Esquimau.
In 1898, at the time of the great rush for gold, he was the only white boy on...
Title taken from front. Miners sluicing for gold at Dry Creek, Nome, Alaska. Also from front: "H.G.K." Photographer's number 1092. n.d. Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Title from image. Postcard of three men shooting the Whitehorse Rapids near Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. The postcard incorrectly states these rapids are located in Alaska. Narrative in photo album reads: "The lower end of Miles...
View at White Pass on the border between Alaska and British Columbia, Canada, along White Pass & Yukon Railroad in Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. From verso: "12/78 Identified by Bob Spude, Klondike G[old] R[ush] [National]...
Descriptive Narrative: Playing cards (all original 52) and leather case. White Pass & Yukon Route. Different scenes.
History: Gift of Caryl Sale Krug and John W. Krug, 1998. Collected by William W. Sale and Neeta Tobey Sale, residents of Nome,...
Title taken from caption. View of the interior of a tent where members of the expedition are weighing out gold dust. The gold dust is to be used to pay for provisions. The provisions are laid out on tables in front of the expedition members. Photo...
Title taken from front. View down Main Street, Wasilla, Alaska, looking north toward road to Willow Creek gold mines. Businesses shown include Herning's Place, Knik Trading Company, and Wasilla Hotel. From verso: "1931. See Wasilla Alaska photo...
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.