Photo caption reads "Gus Owen and Roy Lynch weighing a sponge to be sent to Anchorage. About $14,000." View of two men working the scales used to weigh the gold removed from the Independence Mine, Alaska. 1939.
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
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Naticcha. S. J., Cleveland, Ohio
Janousek, R. C., Omaha, Neb.
Madsen, C. E., Karstad, Minn.
Chavez, L. R., Lompac, Calif.
Karselsky, A., Dothan, Ala.
Lt (jg) R. C. Viets, Vincennes, Ind.
Comdr....
Title taken from image. Two men and a woman hold oversized book titled "Jones Law." Float reads: "We want the same kind of independence the thirteen colonies gained back in 1776."
Sign in image reads: American Forest Week, April 22-28, 1928, A Week to Think and Talk of Forest Benefits, Timber - Water - Health. Cross section of a Sitka Spruce tree, with rings marked to indicate the dates of notable historical events: The...
View of Gus Owen pulling a crucible from the Independence Mine, Alaska assay furnace. From caption: "Gus Owen pulling crucible from assay furnace." 1939.
View of 275 horsepower Atlas diesel engine directly connected to 200 kw alternator installed in 1940 at Independence Mine power plant house near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. 1948.
Title supplied by cataloger. Creek running down roadbed. Slide taken near Independence Mine. Slide labeled, 'Independence Mine.' Slide carousel labeled, 'Homesteading #2.' Original format: 35mm color slide
Title supplied by cataloger. Possibly driving to Joe Redington Sr.'s mine. Hatcher Pass Road. Slide labeled, 'Independence Mine.' Slide carousel labeled, 'Homesteading #1.' Original format: 35mm color slide
View of B.A. "Tony" Wickstrom and his rebuilt "old" mill on the site of the earlier Martin mill at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. The mill burned to the ground early in 1941. Fall 1940.
View of Bill Stoll and Robin Montgomery acting up at Independence tent camp near the old mill site near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. July 1936.
Title from caption. "Celebrating 4th July at Fairbanks Alaska, 1904. L.E. Robertson, Photo." Panoramic photograph of the Independence Day celebrations in Fairbanks, 1904. A crowd is gathered around the Fairbanks Court House. City hall is a...
Interior of the mill building at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company Independence Mine. Photograph shows Charlie Porter with a container of mercury in his hand, in the process of adding mercury to the ball mill. Original photograph...
Interior shot showing two mill workers, Chuck Porter and Leonard Johnson, shoveling and bagging flotation cell concentrates at the Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mining Company's Independence Mine. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".