Title from accompanying notes. A man attached to a rope on his way out of a crevasse. A pick axe and rope lie below him on the snow and ice that had collapsed.
Title from accompanying notes. One man in climbing gear is taking a photograph of another climber who is next in line on the safety rope. Their equipment includes carabiners, backpacks, pick axes, cameras, rope, goggles and harnesses.
Title from accompanying notes. View uphill of a man climbing mountain. The mountain slope is barren and quite steep. The man is tethered with rope, and he carries a pick axe or walking stick.
Title from accompanying notes. Three men at the summit of Mount Miyazaki. They are holding a pick with U.S. and Japanese flags attached. A flag reading in part "AJEXX" flies above the man at right.
Title from slide index prepared by Peter Haase 14 July 2006. The Chevron station at Tetlin Junction. Two log cabins, a log pole sign with pick, pan and shovel, an American flag, several moose antlers on posts, a Chevron sign, two men, a van, and...
Title taken from caption. "A section of the ash fall showing differential weathering between first and second layers." View of a mining pick to give scale to the depth of the ash that has fallen in two separate layers. Photo taken at what was later...
Sign for Earthquake Park, where huge tracts of land slid into the Inlet during 1964 Alaska Earthquake, in Anchorage, Alaska. Seal with totem pole and Alaska flag at left. Sign reads: "Alaska Purchase Centennial 1867-1967. Earthquake Park. 'And...
Title taken from caption. View of automobiles, utility poles, and buildings and storefronts in downtown Ketchikan from the deck of the S.S. Yukon. From May's journal, dated May 18th: "Up early in time to see the boat dock at Ketchikan at 6:30 a.m....
Title taken from caption. Members of the expedition await the arrival of the launch from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa. From May's journal, dated June 4th: "We were all digging away yesterday morning when we heard the Tally whistling....
Title taken from caption. View of men loading chopped wood onto a wheelbarrow to be taken to a river steamer on the Yukon River in Alaska. Several other men pick through the wood pile. From verso: "The Yukon river boats burn wood! They stop...
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy standing in a hole on his homestead at Bear Cove on kachemak Bay on the Kenai peninsula, Alaska, circa 1977-1978. He is waving a black hat. There are a metal bucket, shovel, pick, hoe, and wooden plank...
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.
Title taken from verso. View of young man chopping sea ice with pick while gathering ice with bucket on beach at Kotzebue, Alaska, with buildings and person in background. Also from verso: "Kotzebue." June 14, 1962. Original photograph size: 10" x...
Title taken from verso. View of oil absorbing materials during spill cleanup at Galbraith Lake at Galbraith Lake Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction camp in Brooks Range, Alaska, with tents in background and men at right. June 29, 1975....
Title taken from verso. Fourth Avenue at E Street, looking east. Anchorage, 1940's. A military truck sits parked at the curb next to a sign reading Pick Up Military Personnel Here. Other automobiles, businesses, and pedestrians can also be seen....