Spear used by women for self-defense; birch shaft; rusty steel blade (two prongs at end, one broken off); set in slit; lashed with babiche around slit and interlaced all the way to other end of shaft; blade brought from Ft. Yukon. Measures 67.5 in....
Spear used by women for self-defense; birch shaft; rusty steel blade (two prongs at end, one broken off); set in slit; lashed with babiche around slit and interlaced all the way to other end of shaft; blade brought from Ft. Yukon. Measures 67.5 in....
Three miners working at a mining site. A large boiler with a smokestack and other mining equipment is visible. A tripod is set up above at least one mine shaft.
Title taken from front. View of tunnel and air shaft at Matanuska coal mines, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G238." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G238. 1916. Photographer: P.S. Hunt. Original...
Title taken from front. Men working hand cranks on hoisting machinery over mine shaft at mining operation on Third Beach, Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number 1077. n.d. Photographer: Goetze.
Title taken from label on matting. View of placer mine at Ester Creek, Alaska with old mine shaft in foreground. Also from label: "Fairbanks, Alaska. (Temp. 35)." Photographer's number 8085B. Sept. 1938. Photographer: Ray B. Dame. Original...
Title drawn from verso; verso notes shown below photograph Winter scene of three men standing above mine shaft, leaning on wooden frame, and one sitting on edge with shovel
Title from caption. Photograph of two men on what is probably a prospecting/mining shaft. A crosscut saw, a sawhorse, and a stove visible. Clemons photo sign is prominant next to the stove.
54 second film clip, black & white/silent, of a miner hauling wood to feed a steam engine. The steam was used to thaw the frozen ground and enable the miners to chip out the rock and earth. A bucket is seen coming out of a mine shaft and...
Title from caption. "'Candle City,' Fairhaven Mining District, Candle Creek in foreground.' Photo numbered "118." At right may be the top of a mine shaft. This is the left half of a photo. See UAF-2004-120-5 right.
Photo caption reads "Engineers Ned Nelson and Bob Keiberts sampling a vein in the shaft." View of two men taking samples from a vein somewhere underground in the Independence Mine. One man is using a hammer to remove small chunks of the rock and...
Jack Hoare and Charlie White using the stopeing machine to remove ore from around the mine shaft in the Ruff & Tuff gold mine. Original photograph size: 4" x 6".
Title taken from verso. Two prospectors operating windlass for hoisting rocks and gravel from shaft at mining operation in Interior Alaska. From front: "The Alaska prospector." Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. 1920's. Original photograph...
Title taken from front. View of freshly poured concrete during bridge construction on Tanana River at Nenana, Alaska, with construction workers in background and foreground. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 16. Aug. 1,...