View of Santa Claus riding on a dogsled near the tail end of a C-123 airplane at Savoonga, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. This was part of "Operation Santa Claus" out of Elmendorf Air Force Base. From verso: "Santa (Lt. Col. Jay N. Thomas) and helper...
View of Santa Claus greeting children. From attached press release: "Press Release. Headquarters Alaskan Air Command APO 942, Seattle, Washington. Office of Information. Telephone BRoadway 5-8001 or Elmendorf AFB SKyline 2-6122. For immediate...
View of the abandoned Kennecott Copper Corporation operation at Kennicott, Alaska. The concentration mill is visible on the skyline. From caption: "And here is the mine building---looking almost like a castle the way it sits on the crest of a hill...
View of explosion near shore during dredging operation at Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. From slide mount: "August 1958." 1958? Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Leland A. Olson.
View of drill operation, with compressors on left in foreground and drills stretched out in background; drills spreads could be strung out nearly a half-mile
Title from verso Paratroopers of the 503rd Airborne Infantry, from Fort Bragg, N.C., nearing the landing area, after making a jump from a C-123 in preparation for Operation "Caribou Creek." A green smoke bomb is in the foreground, giving the...
"Pioneer Mining Co. dump on winter fraction. Nome, Alaska April 21st, 1910. 50,356-1/2 yd buckets, height 98 feet." There looks to be a mining operation to the left, with miners and a large pile of tailings on the right.
Color photograph taken at the Anchorage International Airport, July 15, 1958, showing: Dick Kennard, President of C of C; Bill Sanders, American Legion; Joe Hong, Veterans of Foreign Wars; Bob Atwood, Anchorage Times, Statehood Commission; Anton...
Title from caption. Gold mining, logging and possible smelting operation at Vault Creek north of Fairbanks, Alaska. Woodworking bench in center of the image. 8 in. x 10 in.
Title from caption. Caption also includes the number 338 and the word "Photocraft." Verso reads: "Ice breaking up in Copper River at the Chitina crossing Mile 132 C.R. & N.W. Ry. Stringers and rails taken up to save them from going into river....