U.S. Government Reindeer Project managers Joe Chase (right) and "Uncle John" using walkie-talkie to communicate with herders at Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer...
U.S. Government Reindeer Project manager Joe Chase and Project engineer Fred Chase holding frozen reindeer entrails in cold storage room at Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak...
Title taken from verso. View of farmers preparing to draw for their forty acre farms in Palmer, Alaska, during Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Manatuska Valley Colonization Project. Men in far background are (left to right) Colonel O.F....
Photograph of Senator Gruening on a visit to the office of the Tax Modernization Project. Identified left to right: Leonard Horwitz, Prograpm Officer, USAID/Chile; Edwin Anderson, Chief of Development Planning USAID/Chile; Herbert Beaser,...
Title from image. Verso reads: "P.5 -OIL. 2 col x 25 1/2 PICAS. "Chena Sign --" Cutline. 100. 26." Verso also stamped with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers logo and the dates Sept. 1974 and Jan 16, 1975. Image shows a sign posted in...
Title from album caption. A concrete building at the bottom of a hill, with overhead door, several large windows, and a man door. There are electrical transformers near the building. The words "Anchorage Light & Power Company" are engraved on...
Two construction workers stand at the entrance to the Eklutna Power Plant water tunnel. A railway line and large diameter pipe are visible going into the tunnel. The Eklutna dam, powerplant and tunnel (Eklutna Project) were constructed between...
Three construction workers on scaffolding outside the tunnel that will carry water from Eklutna Lake to the Eklutna Power Plant. The Eklutna dam, power plant and tunnel (Eklutna Project) were constructed between 1951-1955 by the Bureau of...
Title taken from caption. View of a sign near Eklutna Lake in southcentral Alaska, in the snow and at night. Sign reads: "United States, Department of the Interior, Alaska Power Administration, Eklutna Project. Eklutna Lake, elevation 8710 feet,...
View of village of Mekoryuk on Nunivak Island, Alaska, location of U.S. Government Reindeer Project. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard Kosbau and Ward W. Wells,...
Reindeer herd in U.S. Government Reindeer Project corral at Mekoryuk, Nunivak Island, Alaska, with coastline in background. From information with photo: [Photo used in article entitled] "Nunivak Island Reindeer Story - August 1954. By Howard Kosbau...
The pipeline project received added recognition during February, when the Senior Project Manager of the Pipeline portion of the project, Frank P. Moolin, Jr., was named "Construction's Man of the Year" by Engineering News-Record magazine.
Title from verso. Verso: A study group visiting the Rampart Canyon site of a proposed hydroelectric development project on the Yukon River are shown at Texas Creek Bridge. Across the stream is the camp set up by Army Engineers this winter as a...
Verso: Alaskan Congressional delegation members, Senator Ernest Gruening, left; and Representative Ralph J. Rivers, right, are shown with Alaska District Engineer, Colonel Christian Hanburger. They were part of a study group who visited Rampart...
As the chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic Development of the Senate Public Works Committee, Senator Gruening inspects a housing project in Bethel while in the town to hold hearings.
Earl and Natalie Norris talk about learning about sled dogs and moving to Alaska, selling and donating dogs to search and rescue, Natalie's arrival in Alaska, meeting Earl, the use of Natalie's dogs during World War II for northern latitude search...
The Harry Heins material consists of a photograph album documenting the building of the Canol Highway. The Canol (short for Canadian Oil) Road was a project that built a pipeline and a road from Norman Wells, Northwest Territories, Canada, to...
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...