John J. Sesnon Co.'s cable way for landing freight at Nome. 1400 feet long, shore tower 125 feet high, Cassion tower 90 feet above highwater. The largest cable way of its kind in the world.
Photo of a man standing in front of some trees and bushes. He is wearing a suit jacket, tie and cap. In his right hand, he seems to be holding some kind of paper or card. This may be in Lindsay, California. Photos...
Three women and one man stand on the end of a railroad car, on what seems to be a platform of some kind. Writing on the railroad car reads: "Alaska Northern." Also written on the car is the number "23." The people are...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a glacier and mountains in the distance as seen from an airplane. What kind of land directly underneath the plane is hard to determine. The wing of the airplane can just barely be seen. Caption from...
Title from caption. Photograph shows men at a construction camp along Goldstream, on April 10th, 1918. They appear to be driving piles through the snow. Two horses are pulling a cart of some kind. Caption also reads: "No. 140. A. J. Johnson,...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of farm equipment on an experimental farm in Rampart, Alaska. Narrative in photo album reads: "All scenes on the U. S. Experimental Station. Main objective was to develop a wheat which would ripen hard enough to...
Title from caption in album: "Oct 12 - Front of cabin". Photograph shows a log cabin covered in snow. An object that appears to be some kind of tarp or canvas hangs from a tree nearby.
Title from caption. Photograph of James Bernard and Captain William Moore's 1st log cabin. Note the wooden shake roof. Caption reads: "Old original log house, first one of any kind constructed by J. BV. & Wm. Moore at Skagway, Ak, in the...
Title from verso. Verso reads: "Arthur Grant, Sr. with wife and children, Andrew Vachon in the background, taken at Tanana." Indexer's note: Sally Hudson added further information in February 1989. Alfred Grant (thinks wife is Evelyn) "Kind...
Full note reads: "1949 04 Nora Black in front of her sod house @ Shungnak, AK. This house was at the south end of the village and the only one of its kind. I think she was the oldest female in the village."
Title taken from stereograph. "246-(11530) -- Arctic City is near the Arctic Circle on a branch of the Yukon River. You would know by everything in this view that you are in a cold climate. In the background are the snow-covered mountains with...
Title taken from caption. "9201 -- This stereograph shows the kind of dress worn by men and women in Alaska during the summer. During the winter they adopt the dress of the natives. This consists of high boots made of seal or walrus skin,...
Title taken from caption. "9206 -- (23) In 1897 Dr. J. Jones commanded a lucrative practice in Evanston, Ill., and Mr. G. B.Winter was one of the successful grocers of the same city. About this time the instigator and promoter of Klondike Gold...
Title taken from caption. "9358 -- (36) We frequently see published statements to the effect that the aborigines are rapidly disappearing, but the scene here depicted contradicts such an assertion. The eleven youthful Esquimaux who make up the...
Title taken from caption. "9299 -- (39) Here we see the miners digging loose the bank and shoveling the dirt into the stream. Sometimes blasting is used to loosen the bank. The stream carries the soil with the gold which is in it to a sluice...