These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of farm equipment on an experimental farm in Rampart, Alaska. Narrative in photo album reads: "All scenes on the U. S. Experimental Station. Main objective was to develop a wheat which would ripen hard enough to...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows an airplane either being lifted of put into the water. Writing on a ship nearby reads: "American Diamon[d]", which may refer to American Diamond Lines Inc. A man stands on a pontoon of the airplane....
Title from caption. Photograph of harvesting wheat with a Caterpillar tractor. Narrative in photo album read: "At left: Using combine and large tractor to harvest crop. In one operation, grain is cut, threshed & put into bags, sometimes...
Title from caption. Photograph of Sam the cat on the Rivenburg's roof in Rampart. Narrative in photo album reads: "Picture on the roof of the back entrance to our kitchen in Rampart. Sam lived on whole raw rabbits which I shot with a '22'...
Title from caption in album: "April 5 - Upper mouth of [Box] cañon in East cañon". Photograph shows a snowy canyon, with rocky slopes. This photograph appears to have been put into the album upside-down.
Title from verso. Photograph of first wave of landing craft heading for the beaches of Attu. Verso reads: "As American troops landed on Attu, Aleutian Islands, May 11, 1943, a navy combat photography unit accompanied the first wave of...
Title from verso. Photograph of Selawik inhabitants floating home on a raft of logs with their tent set up for the trip. Verso reads: "[In?] the [spring?] before the ice and snow is gone the people from Selawik go up the river with their...
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,...
(7:00 min.) (04 of 12) Weather at Amchitka and railroad to bering sea Apr '42 Engineers got word from Service and Supply (Roosevelt) find Railroad route from Fairbanks to sea.--Town meeting of the 3000 population of Fairbanks--Lots of...
(6:10 min.) (11 of 27) Denali, Nenana and Taylor Roads Why was Denali road built? Pressure was to get road access to McKinley Park. Road to Nenana was put in because, due to people of Nenana, the city was able to get right of way for entire...
(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...
(4:11 min) (20 of 27) Haul Road -- Cook & conditions
Cook volunteered to go along when he heard about project. He handed out cookies to the kids, helped in building community relations. Construction was moving slow; there were just not...
(4:26 min) (05 of 19) Illinois Central Railroad Met a man working for the Illinois Central Railroad. Next job was painting for the Illinois Central Railroad. While he was there he put in for the steel gang building and repairing railroad...
(5:52 min) (17 of 19) Business continues to grow Bought out Mr. Goes and Mr. Pearl. Bought out the bus service to the University. In 1931, took over Ravell Brothers and ran freight between Valdez and Fairbanks. Fall of 1931, bought a...
(3:08 min) (18 of 19) Put the gas car out of business Cost $0.25 a round trip in gas between the school and Fairbanks. Fall of 1932 he ordered a 32 passenger bus. Ran it as a bus in the winter and switched the chassis to a cargo vehicle for...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...