Title taken from caption. " S. S. Edith arriving at Valdez, Aug. 10, 1905 with railway materials. " Cataloguer's note: The S. S. Edith was one of Alaska Steamship Company's iron freighters. On one of her voyage from Nome to Tacoma in late...
Title taken from caption. Sidney Connor walking along the Juneau-Douglas bridge. From May's journal, dated May 27th: "Wednesday afternoon Connor and I walked part of the way to Douglas, over the new $150,000 bridge. We got pretty wet for it has...
Title taken from caption. View of livestock from the village of Nikolskoye, Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. " U.S. Revenue Cutter 'Rush' at Valdez, Alaska." Cataloguer's note: Named in honor of Richard Rush (1780 - 1859) who was a statesman and a diplomat, during the administrations of Adams and John Quincy Adams. The...
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway buildings, Anchorage, Alaska, with men working in foreground. Also from front: "A.E.C. G119." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G119. 1916....
Title taken from front. View of the Methodist Church in Seward, Alaska, looking southwest with Mount Marathon and Iron Mountain in the background. Also from front: "1100. McMullen." Photographer's number 1100. 1949-1959? Photographer: Sylvia...
Title taken from verso. Full title on verso reads, "First silo in Fairbanks district perhaps in all Alaska, built by J. F. Hielscher, fall of 1905. Lumber cut and matched by Noyes' Mill = Tanana Lumber Co. Iron bands by Barrack Blacksmith...
Title taken from verso. View of pipe with concrete coating at Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction site at Sagavanirktok River on North Slope in Alaska. Also from verso: "Weighted pipe needed due to negative water table and under river passage."...
Tourists look at the aerial tramway used to transport copper ore between the mines and the mining operation at Kennecott Copper Mine in Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "This tramway, located at the back of the mine building, extends way back into...
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
White marble bear sculpture on a stone base; [made for the Grave of Jim K--------. The orthodox priest refused to allow it in the cemetery, and so it was placed in front of his clan house, Gaayeis’ Hít (Iron House) of the Chookaneidí; the...