Title taken from caption. View of machine shops at Alaska Engineering Commission railroad yards in Seward, Alaska, with Alaska Northern Railway cars on tracks. Sign on train reads: "Alaska Northern." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Mostly Asian men standing around machine. Peeled potatoes tumbling out. Plate on machine: The Economical Vegetable Peeler made by Belding & Franklin New York, N.Y. U.S.A. Patent Pending. Photographer's number 93.
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 from verso. Photograph of air raid on Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Verso Reads "Jap [ Japanese ] bombs fall harmlessly into the bay during a raid on Dutch Harbor, June 3-4. Jap [ Japanese ] bombardiers missed by a mile when they tried...
Title from verso. Photograph of U.S. troops advancing on Holtz Bay on Attu Island. "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of Holtz Bay, the Jap [ Japanese ] garrison on...
Title from verso. Photograph of a machine gun position on Attu Island during the Aleutian Campaign. Verso reads: Washington D.C. -- This photo, one of the first taken of the landing of U.S. Troops on Jap-held [ Japanese held ] Attu...
Title from verso. Photograph of men waiting for a lull in the fighting to advance. Verso reads: ""Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of Holtz Bay, the Jap [...
65 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a small town newspaper being produced. According to the sign hanging on the building, Jack Allman was the editor and publisher. Possibly this is him in the clip. A man types and then makes copies of...
"Lt. William Sharrow gives instruction to trainees on the .30 cal. air cooled machine gun. Alaska guardsmen are trained to shoot and care for a wide variety of weapons."
Title taken from accompanying note. "Bevel machine, north slope, Prudhoe Bay, 1971 [Surfcote, 1971]". A crane operator is raising or lowering a piece of machinery. In the background at left, hundreds of lengths of pipe lie stacked.
Jack Hoare and Charlie White using the stopeing machine to remove ore from around the mine shaft in the Ruff & Tuff gold mine. Original photograph size: 4" x 6".
View of one of two four-cell flotation machine banks in the mill at Independence Mine near Hatcher Pass in southcentral Alaska. Gold-bearing bulk sulphide concentrates from these machines were dewatered, sacked, and shipped for smelting to the...
Title taken from caption. View of washing machine in front of house at Hooper Bay, Alaska, with boardwalk between buildings in foreground. Also from caption: "Hooper Bay, AK." Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Robert Fortuine.
Title taken from finding aid. View of the Railroad depot fountain in Seward. The sign on the building in the background reads: "Seward Machine Shop". Original photograph size: 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from front. Alaska Engineering Commission Railway's electric ice thawing machine, Anchorage, Alaska, with buildings in background. Also from front: "A.E.C. G344." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G344. 1917....
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway machine shop during construction, Anchorage, Alaska, with railroad tracks running through center and scaffolding in front. Also from front: "A.E.C. G117." An Alaska Engineering...