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...
View of sled dog standing on platform next to trophies and scoreboard. Sign on platform reads: "Nikki. Star of Walt Disney's [movie 'Nikki, wild dog of the north'.]" Photo taken during North American Championship Sled Dog Races in Fairbanks,...
Title from verso. A black bear sleeps on a raised platform outside a house in St. Michael, Alaska. The bear is chained to the platform and a barrel is visible in the background. ca. 1910-1920. Original photograph size: 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch.
Title taken from slide mount. View of soldiers with arms marching in Fur Rendezvous parade on 4th Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska. Federal Building is visible at right, spectators, some in uniform, stand along street and on platform, and drugstore is...
Title taken from caption. View of volcanic ash deposit with Platform Ridge in background as seen from National Geographic Expedition base camp in what was later designated Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. 1919. Photographer: A.J. Basinger.
This photograph depicts a tent on a wooden platform on Harold and Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy's homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, circa 1950. There is an unidentified man on the platform in front of the tent.
Title taken from front. View of platform for loading coal near Eska Creek on Alaska Engineering Commission Railway, Southcentral Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G306." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G306. Feb. 13,...
Title taken from front. View looking west toward Alaska Engineering Commission railroad yards, Anchorage, Alaska, with railroad cars on coal loading platform at left and railroad roundhouse, machine shop, and warehouse in background. Cook Inlet is...
Title taken from verso. Woman with reindeer on Alaska Railroad depot platform at Curry Hotel, Curry, Alaska. 1920's. Original photograph size: 3 1/8" x 5 3/8".
Title taken from verso. United States Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes and wife Jane Dahlman Ickes standing on rear platform of Alaska Railroad passenger car in Mount McKinley National Park (later Denali National Park and Preserve), Alaska....
Title taken from information with photo. View of Shell Oil Clomar II drilling platform on barge in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Lettering on barge reads: "Clomar II." Sept. 1964. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
Title taken from information with photo. Aerial view of Phillips Petroleum and Pan American Petroleum Company South Middle Ground Shoal Unit, Dillon Platform, in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Oct. 1967. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size:...
Title taken from verso. Aerial view of oil well drilling platform in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Oct. 18, 1967. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 10" x 8 1/8".
Title taken from information with photo. Aerial view of Phillips Petroleum and Pan American Petroleum Company South Middle Ground Shoal Unit, Dillon Platform, in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Oct. 1967. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size:...
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...
Pontoons were flooded to settle the platform to permanent position some 60 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska, and three miles from the west shore of Cook Inlet. Submarine pipe lines connected to the pontoons carry to shore where the 20%...
The platform was christened "The Trading Bay". After launching it was towed 2,000 miles via the Columbia River and Pacific Ocean to Cook Inlet, Alaska.
Design by Brown & Root of Houston and built at American Pipe and Construction Company at Vancouver, Wash., shipyards, the Trading Bay platform was towed to its permanent location in Cook Inlet, Alaska, for completion. The rugged jacket section was...