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...
Album caption: Signal Corps relief cabin on Delta Summit, where the second and first sections of the Washington-Alaska Military Cable & Telegraph System meet. At the end of Fielding Lake, a sheet of water about eight miles long. This pass is but...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Made from a 5 gallon gas can; two tin cans with ends perforated are soldered on either side of the can; door made of piece of tin wired on; wire swing handle; wood chips are burned inside to keep off mosquitoes. (Smudging means to allow something...
On verso: "Barren plateau north of Slatepile Mt., scene of our all night retreat from the mosquitoes (July 31); Gates to the Arctic in center background"
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.
Sparacino, Diana (artist). Mixed media painting on canvas. Abstract. This piece is a mixed media oil painting: objects affixed include mosquitoes, wire screen, and paper cuttings. Dated and Signed, Verso. Size: 19.25 x 21.75 in. Ms. Sparacino...
Ta'giuqtigapta Tuapaktusu'gmi Immersion Camp: Iñupiaq Land Use Values and Resources Video: 1 minute and 23 seconds, MPG-1 format. A group of campers went on a long hike, heading out first along the shore and then arcing inland and back towards...
Title from caption. Photograph of two men in a boat wearing head nets. Narrative in photo album reads: "Government men on business inspection trip. Note head nets for protection from flies & mosquitoes."
Title from verso. Women and boys working on a garden in front of a fence. White rocks placed along garden rows. Two children are wearing mosquito-netting. A large flat-roofed building with bay windows and an antenna, two slanted-roof buildings...
Title taken from caption. View of a member of the National Geographic expedition standing on top of a sod roofed log cabin. The man is wearing a mosquito net over his head and smoke is coming out of the cabin. Caption also says: "Before going to...
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Caption reads: Camp at 89. The best camp of the season. Clear ice-cold water, plenty of good fuel, fish, large and small game, no dust nor mosquitoes or gnats. While encamped here much of the wire transferring was...