Title taken from verso. View of worker walking next to Trans-Alaska pipeline covered in concrete for insulation, prior to laying pipe in ditch during pipeline construction under Tonsina River in Southcentral Alaska. Also from verso: "Tonsina River...
Pamela F. Lekanof was working out of the Asbestos Workers Local # 97 hall, Anchorage, Alaska. Her employer was a subcontractor, Brand Insulation. She worked out of the Asbestos Workers hall for over three years, first as a trainee and later an...
Joanne Gottbreht was working out of the Asbestos Workers Local # 97 hall, Anchorage, Alaska. Her employer was a subcontractor, Brand Insulation. Information courtesy of Pamela F. (Lekanof) Horine.
Hiring call in old laborers' hall in basement of King's Kup restaurant, Noble Street, Fairbanks. The young woman in the photo is Debbie Reed: "My first job on the pipeline was Jan 10th, 1975 at Franklin Bluffs on the night crew laying down the...
This dome shaped type of tent is called a Qalluvik in Iñupiaq. Willows for the frame were collected inland, around Atqasuk, then bent into curved shape and tied together to make tent frame. It was then covered with canvas. (Early Iñupiaq tents...