Title from front. Photographer George Gordon Cantwell, left, and his business partner Frederic N. Atwood sitting in front of a tent at their camp on the Yukon River. Cantwell is smoking a pipe and scrubbing a pan. From verso: "En route to Klondike...
The world's first single-leg drilling platform, called a monopod, was designed for Marathon Oil company and its partner to be used in developing the Trading Bay Field in Alaska. Seven foot model shows portions of the com=lately equipped platform...
Designed to overcome the 30-foot tides, crushing ice, and strong currents of Alaska's Cook Inlet, this "monopod" drilling rig owned by Marathon Oil Company and Union Oil Company of California is positioned over the partner's discovery well at the...
Title from image. Portrait of Saginaw Jake (Kitcheenault) and Harlampy Sokolof in regalia sitting in front of American flag. Photographer's number 125.
Portrait photograph of Esther Birdsall Darling, who was A. A. "Scotty" Allan's partner and co-owner of the team that took two firsts, two seconds, and two third places in six All Alaska Sweepstakes races in Nome between 1908 and 1915.
Title from verso Head and shoulders portrait of Healy, "Taken in Montana" Note: John J. Healy and his partner Edgar Wilson operated a trading post on Dyea River on trail to Chilkoot Pass
This photograph depicts three women and six men dressed in costumes and blackface in Dawson, Yukon Territory. The woman in back at left holds spectacles, the man next to her holds a cane, and the man in front of her holds what appears to be a cake....
Daryl Miller is interviewed by Dave Krupa on April 27, 2000 in Talkeetna, Alaska. Miller discusses his personal background and how he was introduced to climbing; his first climbing experience on Denali; not summitting on his first attempt and the...
View of five women and four men sitting on a hillside in Dawson, Yukon Territory at 1:00 a.m. in broad daylight. Photographer George Gordon Cantwell is second from right and his business partner, Frederic N. Atwood, is mistakenly identified as...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Group photograph of left to right: Senator William Heen, Honolulu, T. H.; Robert Dodge, (law partner, Heen's office), Honolulu; Arthur Trask (attorney), Honolulu; Mrs. Gracie Pfost (Congresswoman), Idaho; Mrs. Nancy Corbett (1952 candidate for...
"Title taken from caption. "9256 -- (14) There were a goodly number of robust young fellows who undertook this journey to and through the valley of the Yukon in search of the royal metal fully prepared to overcome all difficulties and to get...