Title from caption. Photograph shows people walking in front of a sleigh pulled by horses breaking the trail. The sleigh is carrying cargo of some sort. The words 'Fairbanks Valdez stage' can faintly be made out along the bottom of the sleigh.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows loaded up sleds being pulled by horses and pack mules. A few men are standing near them. They appear to be at a roadhouse with a sign on it that reads "The Dam" and another sign in front reading "Beaver...
Title by indexer. Photograph shows a beach next to an outcropping of rocks. Men are standing on the beach next to automobiles and carts being pulled by horses. Original size is 5.5 x 3.25 in.
38 second film clip, color/silent, of the Alaska Territorial Guard [ATG] moving a house on skids through the streets of Nome, Alaska. They are using a bulldozer; other heavy equipment can be seen in the background.
31 second film clip, black & white/silent, of men cutting ice. The men cut the ice with saws and haul it away using a small sled or sledge pulled by an old fashioned truck.
Title from verso. Photograph of a corporal sharing coffee with another soldier. Verso reads: "Nothing like a spot of coffee, particularly on bleak Attu! Corporal Carl Gompf (left) of Marion, O., and Colonel R.G. F[P]erusson (right) of...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title from indexer. Photograph of Edward Kiokun of Mekoryuk butchering a bearded seal. His boat is pulled up on the ice. Kiokun was identified by his son, Hultman Kiokun and his daughter-in-law, Dorothy Kiokun.
Title from caption: "No. 1 above Discovery Cleary Creek, Alaska, Fairbanks mining dist." Written on front of postcard, " Showing mode of dumping the buckets of gravel which is taken out of ground. Sluice boxes on troughs are laid at side of...
Title from caption. Photograph of Ben Moore seated in a buggy pulled by a young moose. Caption reads: "Ready for a drive with baby moose. Skaguay Al. summer of 1899."
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "When the small Army Signal Corps detachment pulled out [1954?], they left their generator to the village, and with it the village council successfully provided electricity to all village...
(2:57 min) (10 of 19) Driving the Richardson Road #2 Thompson Pass too steep; had to be pulled; didn't have fuel pumps back then. 7 days to Fairbanks. Stopped at the News Miner offices and Pete Steele's Grocery.
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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70 second, black & white/silent film clip of the 1935-1936 Fairbanks Ice Carnival parade. Floats and their sponsors include: a basketball team in their bus, Waechter Brothers Meat Co., Creamers Dairy, what looks like a horse drawn coach, a dog...