Title from caption: [Unloading] gas shovel - 5/15/31. A crane is raising or lowering a piece of heavy machinery, while three men look on. Location is Fairbanks; compare with UAF-2007-64-46.
Title from caption: [Unloading] Gas Shovel - 5/15/31 - Fairbanks. A crane with smoke coming from its stack; another piece of heavy equipment sits on a car or platform in front of it. Three or four men are to the right. The name "Larson"...
Three men work on a steam shovel or other excavator. A fourth sits on the ground (center). Photographer's finger visible at right. Compare with UAF-2007-64-169.
Verso: "J.J. Murray." Two men stand on the neck of a steam shovel or similar excavator. Another sits in the background, and another, wearing a hat, stands in the foreground. Compare with UAF-2007-64-167.
One man stands on the tread of a steam shovel or similar excavator; another stands behind the shovel arm and back. They seem to be in an equipment yard.
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title by cataloger. Several men watch as a crane shovel moves snow. The road behind them is clear of snow. There are markers for the crane operator to follow as he digs the snow out.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from front. View of steam shovel during Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction along Turnagain Arm, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G189." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G189. Nov. 10, 1916....
Title taken from front. View of United States Railway steam shovel being used during Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction, near Moose Creek, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. From front: "A.E.C. G45." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo....
Title taken from verso. View of street excavation for the first paving, Anchorage, Alaska, with steam shovel and men working. Also from verso: "The shovel operator was Mervin Brayton; this is in front of the old White House Hotel on west 4th Avenue...
Title taken from front. Men and steam shovel along railroad tracks during Alaska Engineering Commission Railway construction along Turnagain Arm, Alaska. Also from front: "A.E.C. G594." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number...
Title taken from front. View of steam shovel digging out material to use for fill in replacing Alaska Engineering Commission Railway bridge, Southcentral Alaska, with railroad cars in foreground and trestle in background. Also from front: "A.E.C....
Title taken from verso. View of Alaska Railroad steam shovel and freight cars filled with rock and gravel in rock pit near Eklutna, Alaska. Photo number 47. Summer 1923. Photographers: C.J. Blanchard and Ray B. Dame. Original photograph size: 6...
Title taken from front. View of railroad workers standing on steam shovel during Copper River and Northwestern Railway construction, Cordova, Alaska. From front: "Hand-colored." Photographer's number 4. Photographer: Owl Drug Co. Postcard (color)....