"A water power saw mill, the brain child of Jack Scheele. This was arranged, that a small log could be set in the log cradle, the water turned in the race to the water wheel, that in turn operated the affair that when the slab had been sawn off...
Title from image. Photograph of the Saw Tooth Mountains and the tracks of the White Pass & Yukon Railroad. Title reads: "Saw Tooth Mts. from tunnel WP&YR" Photographers No. 749." Caption reads: "Short distance from SKaguay, Al."
Title from caption. Photograph shows an electrically operated saw mill. It is raised up on pilings with a wooden sidewalk in front of it. A man is standing in front of it near a cart carrying with lumber. Caption also reads: "No. 59. A. J....
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...
58 second, black & white/silent, film clip of trees being turned into firewood. Two men chop and saw down trees; the logs are cut to wood-stove size with a saw attached to the back of a pick-up truck.
Title taken from back of photo. . "HQ [Headquaters] AAC [Alaskan Air Command] -- EMERGENCY FACILITIES -- The parking lot and bachelor noncommissioned officer's quarters at the USAF Hospital Elmendorf saw a lot of activity during the week of...
This color slide depicts a saw at the sawmill on Harold and Roxolana (Roxy) Pomeroy's homestead at Bear Cove on Kachemak Bay on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, on July 5, 1974. There are a pile of uncut logs in the foreground, and a small building to...
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
Title taken from verso. View of rock saw, or trenching machine, digging trench for gas supply line during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction near Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Also from verso: "It is digging in permafrost for gas supply line between Prudhoe...