Title from caption. Photograph of a fish wheel near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "[For Indians along the Yukon lived?]mostly on fish, specifically on salmon. These were caught mostly by means of fish wheels, two of which...
Title from image. Photograph of a fishwheel on the Yukon River near Stevens Village. Narrative in photo album reads: "[For Indians along the Yukon lived?]mostly on fish specifically on salmon. These were caught mostly by means of fish...
Title from caption. Photograph of a sternwheeler pushing a barge full of cargo. Narrative in photo album reads: "Below shows how steamers pushed huge loads of freight before then both up & down river."
Title from verso. Map showing how military forces took Attu Island during the Aleutian Campaign. Verso reads: "Starting with a landing by scouts on Blind Cove on the north side of Holtz Bay on Attu Island, May 11, American forces have...
(9:56 min.) (06 of 09)
River conditions
villages; Galena; Fairbanks; hauled horses; north slope; big wheels; Yukon River bridge; couldn't get passed rapids; pushed it over; Lyndon transport; rapids downstream; fast; Rampart; advertising; Bush...
(5:26 min.) (08 of 12) More on supply transportation Poorly prepared and equipped--Pushed caterpillars (bulldozers) off the top of ridge--3 of 4 survived--built switchback down to cats--escorting an engineer company
(3:24 min.) (03 of 27) Early life
Woody born in Eyak near Cordova. Rotary snow plow near the roundhouse pushed by 3-4 locomotives. Had to synchronize the exhaust from the four engines and the rotary snow plow.
(6:03 min) (15 of 27) Road building philosophy
Were the roads necessary? Roads were built to open up the country. Another philosophy pushed for more planning. Permanence of communities was always in question. People still needed...
(3:36 min.) (09 of 28) 9. WWII in North Africa
George worked his way across North Africa. He describes air raids in Cairo, how Rommel was pushed back, how war was declared while he was on the ship to Africa. Bombers ferried across the...
View of men digging a railroad car out of the snow that was pushed off the tracks as a result of a snowslide at mile 48, south of Bartlett Glacier on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. From caption: "Slide m[ile]p[ost] 48. Jan 17 -1946." From verso "[?]...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Engineering Commission Railway car pushed off the tracks by snowslide along Turnagain Arm, Alaska, with people in background at right. Also from front: "A.E.C. G-1521." An Alaska Engineering Commmission photo....
Title taken from front. View of people examining Alaska Engineering Commission Railway car pushed off tracks by snowslide along Turnagain Arm, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C G-1519. Occupied by Col. F. Mears and Mrs. Mears at the time. No one...
Man with reindeer carcass hanging on hook on conveyor belt being taken to skinning room at U.S. Government Reindeer Project complex in Mekoryuk on Nunivak Island, Alaska. Other men are in background, and children and others are standing by fence at...