43 second, B&W with sound, film clip. From title frame: "Gravel Collection, 1968." Film shows Ted Stevens talking about coming to Alaska and about his working in Washington D.C.
68 second film clip, color/sound. From title frame: "Gravel Collection, 1974". Film shows former Governor William Egan speaking in support of U.S. Senator Mike Gravel.
76 second film clip, color/silent. Film shows a C-130 Hercules taking off from Fairbanks and flying to Sagwon. Once it lands, the cargo is unloaded. The front of the airplane bears the word "Interior".
"Norwood operating the 'giant', Meilandt watching. The spring of 1918 on Jack Wade Creek, in the Forty Mile country. Jimmy Morris one of the miners that I first met there, said these true words 'Mr. Norwood, this gold mining is allright, but,...
"The hydraulic operation at Crooked Creek under full working head in the spring run of water. It was quite a show. Like most of the operations it was always too little water to operate the 'giants' and too darn much gravel mixed with the gold." ...
A white absorbent pad holds a handful of oily gravel showing what remains after summer cleanup - Quayle Beach, Smith Island (Prince William Sound). This beach was Signed off as environmentally stable at the end of the '89 cleanup season.
A white absorbent pad holds a handful of oily gravel showing what remains after summer cleanup - Quayle Beach, Smith Island (Prince William Sound). This beach was signed off as environmentally stable at the end of the °89 deanup season.
Aerial view of Boeing 737 jet on airstrip at Fort Yukon, Alaska, with buildings in background. From verso: "Taken at F[ort] Yu[kon] when Boeing was testing 727's gravel deflector, 1967. Ft. Yukon." 1967. Original photograph size: 8 1/2" x 11".
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Album caption: The source of the stream shown in the two preceding pictures. This is a mountain of clear crystal ice, covered with a two or three foot layer of crushed rock and gravel, making what is called a "dirty" glazier. The great volume of...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
Beach cleanup worker uses mechanical cleanup, shovel and bucket, to remove oil saturated gravel from beach - Chugach Bay, Badger Cove
(Gulf of Alaska).
Beach cleanup workers use mechanical cleanup, garden trowels and bag, to remove oil saturated gravel from beach - Chugach Bay, Badger Cove (Gulf of Alaska).
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.