Blocks of river ice melt in a Fairbanks street. The finding aid and other related photographs indicate this flood is in Fairbanks during May 1911. Related flood photographs are at: UAF-1968-21-87 through UAF-1968-21-111.
Title taken from caption. View from the interior of an ice cave, looking at a member of the National Geographic expedition collecting water from the snow melt. In the background can be seen some of the tents used by the expedition. The pots and...
Bob Reeve, owner/founder/pilot of Reeve Airways, later Reeve Aleutian Airways, lying on the snow, using a blow torch to melt the ice off the bottom of the plane skis. Original photograph size: 4" x 6".
Two people and a dog stand at edge of snow field; mining equipment, including a boiler and steam wands, used to melt permafrost; possibly in Chisana Mining District
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...