Title taken from caption. "College Bonfire Fall 1928 College, Alaska. Bunnell Collection." Cataloguer's note: In this picture the enthusiastic (construction) crew can be seen high above ground and in the process of building the...
Title taken from verso. Verso reads: "P. 5 OIL. 3 col x 21 PICA. "Parallel Road---" On the west side of the dam there will be a paralleling access road. 90. 21." Verso is also stamped with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers logo and the...
Title from cataloger. Photograph is of a tent and hides being smoked as a part of their tanning. Visible in the photo is a woman behind the left side of the smoking hides, a girl in the tent and a couple of sleeping dogs. Narrative in the album...
“Among some 200 volunteers who worked round-the-clock in Seattle to process more than 30,000 inquiries from anxious relatives of Alaskans living in areas affected by the Good Friday earthquake were (from...
(6:50 min.) (10 of 27) Right-of-way issues
Standards of alignment, grade & bridges. Some were location dependent. Engineers' suggestions and approval process, no requirement for acquiring right-of-way. People always wanted roads to their...
(3:46 min) (24 of 27) Road planning and obstacles
Mining drove some of the road planning, but ease was a factor as well. Kennecott and Anaconda Mines were reasons to try and reach Nome. Native Claims Act put lots of right-of-way issues in...
61 second film clip, color with audio track narration. Clip of a fish wheel under construction and in operation. Narration briefly describes the process.
The Alaska History Nugget series was created in 2004-2005 as a cooperative project...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from caption. "11560 -- (38) The Klondike district, as well as other camps in the interior of Alaska, has a method of placer mining different from that which prevails in other sections of the United States. The ground, which is...
Title from caption. "Facing the camera is Frank Yasuda, one of the best-known Japanese in early Alaska. He is recognized for his treks from the Arctic coast to the interior of Alaska where he founded the town of Beaver on the Yukon River."...
Title by cataloguer. This view is reminiscent of "Killing Fur Seals," and other images depicted by Henry Wood Elliott (1846 - 1930). In this picture a group of men are seen in the process of killing the fur seals.