Title from cataloger. Photograph of a woman who may be Cora Rivenburg standing on the porch of a house. Narrative in photo album reads: "At the right is our house at Stevens Village taken the day after our arrival. The school room occupied the...
Photograph label reads: "Hauling the supplies necessary and the rolling stock in during the summer months by boat from the States to St. Michals [St. Michael?] thence by river boat to Nenana."
Photograph label reads: "The railroad, under Mr. Browne's administration would have been nearly completed and large sums would have been saved for the Government had it not been hampered by the laxity of Congress in meeting...
Title from caption. Photograph of two men in the boat yard behind Stevens Village, building a boat. Narrative in photo album reads: "The boat yard just back of the village where the Indians constructed their long poling boats. They whip-sawed...
Title from verso. Photograph of a soldier witing in a notebook from the entrance of a tent. Verso reads: "His cartridge belt by his feet, Private Oliver Delorio of San Francisco takes time out during the Attu Island campaign to write a...
Title from verso. Photograph of a load of gasoline drums being lowered into an umiak. Verso reads: "Four of 16. Gasoline for Pribilofs -- A slingload of gasoline-filled drums is lowered into a waiting bidar, a 40-foot canvas covered...
(6:03 min) (15 of 27) Road building philosophy
Were the roads necessary? Roads were built to open up the country. Another philosophy pushed for more planning. Permanence of communities was always in question. People still needed...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title from verso. Full caption from verso reads: "A drilling rig sends out a spray of steam during exploratory work at Prudhoe Bay in 1969. The well which discovered the huge oil field had previously been drilled but additional wells, such as...
Title taken from caption. "11561 -- (7) Here are a couple of prospectors playing hide-and-seek in the midst of massive blocks of ice which have been left upon the banks of the Allenkaket River by the receding waters. The blocks exceed in...
Title taken from caption. "11503 -- (9) Those who have never witnessed the breaking up of the ice on the lakes and rivers in the interior of Alaska, will find it difficult to appreciate the enormous quantity of ice which moves with the opening...
Title taken from caption. "9212 -- (16) In this view we have a combination of grocery store, postoffice, laundry, and hay and grain warehouse, as well as a Miner's Exchange. Mr. Courtney, the proprietor, was fortunate in having with him his...
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. "9715 -- (29) The majority of those who crossed the pass stopped either at Lake Linderman or Lake Bennett for the purpose of constructing boats for the journey down the Yukon. The advance of the crusaders rendered it...
Title taken from caption. "11550 The Village of St. Michaels is located upon the northeastern portion of an island of the same name, and is one of the oldest of the Russian outposts in Alaska. Here, passengers and freight are transferred from...
Title taken from caption. "A view taken at Mile 14 on the Alaska Northern Railroad. The Alaska Northern Railroad, extending from Seward to Kern Creek, a distance of 71 miles, was purchased by the Government in August, 1915. No repairs had...
Title taken from donor's caption. "The two horses at left have stepped off into deep water and have been caught by the current. All these Alaskan glacier streams are swift water. No rowing was necessary as the current varied from three or four...
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Album caption: "Cut-in" pole at junction of Delta loop with main line. The telegraph line between Valdez and Fairbanks carries two wires. As Delta is about 2 1/2 miles off the main line it is necessary to 'loop'...
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...