Photo caption reads "Nelson surveying underground." View of Ned Nelson standing over the tracks at a split in the tunnels of the Independence Mine and surveying the left hand route. On the wall of the mineshaft are "FM", the number 490 repeated...
Photo caption reads "The 'cat' in front of the bunkhouse at Independence Mine." View of a tractor parked in front of the bunkhouse at the Independence Mine.
Photo caption reads "The crew of the Ruff & Tuff Mine, Sep. 1938. Standing left to right: Billy Quitch, Jim Moore. Sitting left to right: Mr. Beals, superintendent; Mr. Moore; Pearl Tatro, cook; Elmer smith; Mike Knowles; Mike Haycock; Adolf...
Photo caption: 16 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska Owing to the housing shortage in this area and the fact that the management of the Alaska Railroad declined to have employees live in the unhealthy insanitary conditions which were prevalent in the...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska In this scene immediately adjacent to Anchorage there are visible seven structures which are being used as privies. It would appear that the saturation point had been reached and that well from...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska These two shacks on the North Alley of 4th Avenue house at least six occupants - unlike some other shacks, these two have water and the larger has toilet facilities - both were built by 1917. ...
Photo caption: Dr. Richard C. Murphy, Director of Greater Anchorage Health District - Dr. Robert Wilkins, President of Anchorage Medical Society - Mr. Jack MacCahill, Program Director of Radio Station KFQD, Anch. Occasion: Presentation...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska 10th and East G - - privies and shacks predominate in this scene. Poor housing is one of the major factors in the high degree of illness of children under 10 years of age in this portion of...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska A so-called trailer camp practically in the center of Anchorage. This group situated at 13th and C Streets Provides a central privy for about 25 cabin and trailer units. Reported to charge...
Photo caption: 20 Feb 1948 Anchorage, Alaska Northwest Airlines housing units at C Street and 10th Avenue. Housing can be accomplished with the aid of capitol and a supply of building materials. Only Northwest personnel reside in this...
Photo caption: One week of the Alaska Village Sanitation Aide training course is spent in laboratory work on the study of disease transmission. This program is sponsored jointly by the Alaska Native Health Service, the Alaska Department of Health...
Photo montage of three photographs showing contestants in footraces during 4th of July celebrations in Ruby, Alaska. Text on top photo reads: "Start needle & thread race. Ruby, Alaska. July 4, 1917." Text on middle photo reads: "Three-legged race....
Photo of, left to right, Private Fred Wildon Fickett, Lieutenant Henry T. Allen and Sergeant Cady Robertson, members of the Copper and Tanana Rivers Expedition. Photo taken in Saint Michael, a village on St. Michael Island, Alaska. Annotations on...
Photo shows a crowd running down the street toward a column of dark smoke emanating from the fire at the Star Bakery. The crowd had originally gathered to watch the 4th of July parade in downtown Anchorage; parade banners hanging over the street...