Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers at the front of the advance against Japanese defenders. Verso reads: "Washington D.C. -- This photo, one of the first taken of the landing of U. S. troops on Jap-held [ Japanese held ] Attu Island...
Title from verso. Photograph of men waiting for a lull in the fighting to advance. Verso reads: ""Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of Holtz Bay, the Jap [...
Title from verso. Photograph of a soldier taking cover behind rocks. Verso reads: "As Americans advanced on Holtz Bay. Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of...
Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers carrying ammunition from a protected position. Verso reads: "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu Island early last May at two points, Massacre Bay, and north of Holtz Bay, the Jap [...
Title and caption taken from verso of UAF-1970-11-51, from which this image differs only slightly. Photograph of soldiers carrying ammunition from a protected position. Verso reads: "Attu Island -- When American forces landed on Attu...
Title from verso. Photograph of soldiers clearing snow off a roof. Verso reads: "Soldiers at a U.S. Army base in the Aleutians do a little old-fashioned snow shoveling to clear important points after a williwaw (howling blizzard to you)...
Title from caption. Photograph of Moore's Wharf with ships tied along it; livestock in pens and bales of hay can be seen at the far right. Caption reads: "Moore's Wharf before it was extended & completed, during these years from the period...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a Ford Tri-Motor airplane on skis. The caption underneath the photograph reads "Harding Lake 1938 Would take off in spring Fairbanks field on wheels change to skis [skis] on Harding Lake - the fly to Seward...
Title from caption. Panoramic photograph of Nome. The label points out the Snake River at the left side of the image; the right side reads: "copyright applied for Pillsbury & Cleveland, No. 55." Visible in the photo are driftwood and...
13 sec film clip, color/silent. Clip shows a man driving thaw points and, briefly, a gold dredge. From the video "Alluring Alaska", used for lectures by the Machetanzes when they travelled outside of Alaska.
6 min, 22 sec film clip, color/silent. Footage includes: men operating a hydraulic "giant", men drilling thaw points, interior and exterior operations of a gold dredge, excavation by bulldozer and steam shovel, men sluicing gold and scooping...
3 min, 57 sec film clip, black & white/silent. A man takes a shovelful of dirt from several dredge buckets and runs it through a rocker box, then pans the dust for gold. According to the catalog record for the film containing this...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
46 second, black & white/silent, film clip of a street car in Skagway. The side of the car reads "Skaguay Alaska Street Car -- to all points of interest -- 25 [unreadable, possibly cents]". There appear to be two stuffed toys or dolls or puppets...
Cataloguer's title. A close up view of an undergroud mine. Various twisted hose and pipes are seen here protruding from the walls. The photographer supplies no information but this probably shows the use of steam points to thaw the frozen muck so...
Title taken from caption. "Underground Mining in the Tanana Country." Cataloguer's note: The men in this underground mine seemed to be posing for the camera. Notice the man on the far left -- his facial features have been enhanced by ink,...
Clipping removed from a publication with the caption: Skagway is at the head of the Lynn Canal, and this picture gives some idea of the fall of the tide when one notes the length of the long docks extending out into the water. The mountain in the...
Photograph of the fishing vessel 'Yukon' and two other vessels (the name on one partially obscured showing '-bich') flung into the community of Kodiak by the tsunami resulting from the 1964 earthquake. Also visible are...