Photograph shows colorful mountains stretching off into the distance. The mountain gets its' color primarily from the copper, nickel and cobalt sulfide minerals with some platinum group metals and gold. The valley...
Photograph shows colorful mountains stretching off into the distance. The mountain gets its color primarily from the copper, nickel and cobalt sulfide minerals with some platinum group metals and gold. The valley...
The O'Keefe collection contains photographs and slides taken primarily on Adak Island during World War II. Scenes include landscapes, persons, buildings, plants, animals and ships.
Grace O'Keefe made three trips to Alaska – as a Navy...
Title from caption. Photograph of the interior of the Arctic Brotherhood Hall. The membership, dressed in primarily white regalia, stand posed with hands out before them.
Water serves a variety of purposes in placer mining operations. Primarily, it is used to separate the valuable from the gangue material. Water is also used for the following associated operations; hydraulic stripping, hydraulic elevating, hydraulic...
Title taken from creator's notes. Photograph of Cushman and Second Streets, flags are hung in preparation of the Winter Carnival. Visible is Lavery's Grocery, Quality Liquors, Mecca Bar and the Empress Theater. Caption: It was said during this...
Title taken from creator's notes. Photograph of Lavery's Grocery Store with flags waving in preparation for the Winter Carnival. Caption: It was said during this period of time that two families essentially owned the city. The Lavery...
Title taken from creator's notes. Photograph of the Lavery Building with the following caption: From the left side of this picture, you see the door that leads to the second floor (over Laverys grocery store on the south-east side of 2nd and...
Title taken from caption. View of dog musher, number 8, and his team near the starting line of a dog sled race. There are spectators watching on the right side of the photograph. A trophy can be seen in the foreground to the left of the photograph....
Title taken from caption. Caption reads: "Slumped polygonal frost cracks in the frozen silt, turf-mantled coastal plain along the Arctic coast in the vicinity of the 141st meridan. The deepest slumps are along systems of frost cracks that drain out...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads: "Slumped polygonal frost cracks in the frozen silt, turf-mantled coastal plain along the Arctic coast in the vicinity of the 141st meridan. The deepest slumps are along systems of frost cracks that drain out...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads: "Slumped polygonal frost cracks in the frozen silt, turf-mantled coastal plain along the Arctic coast in the vicinity of the 141st meridan. The deepest slumps are along systems of frost cracks that drain out...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads: "Slumped polygonal frost cracks in the frozen silt, turf-mantled coastal plain along the Arctic coast in the vicinity of the 141st meridan. The deepest slumps are along systems of frost cracks that drain out...
The photographs primarily relate to Valdez and the Copper River country during the period 1899-1905. Included are photographs of towns, buildings, camps, social events, mining, packing supplies and equipment, people, and scenery.
The photographs primarily relate to Valdez and the Copper River country during the period 1899-1905. Included are photographs of towns, buildings, camps, social events, mining, packing supplies and equipment, people, and scenery. Some photographs...
The photographs primarily relate to Valdez and the Copper River country during the period 1899-1905. Included are photographs of towns, buildings, camps, social events, mining, packing supplies and equipment, people, and scenery.
Title from verso Dixon was a field collector who came to Alaska in 1907 and 1908, primarily to collect birds for the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley; after leaving the museum after 1931, he went to work for the National Park Service