Bob Reeve, owner/founder/pilot of Reeve Airways, later Reeve Aleutian Airways, lying on the snow, using a blow torch to melt the ice off the bottom of the plane skis. Original photograph size: 4" x 6".
Photograph of two men thawing holes for telegraph poles with a miner's boiler as well as a dogsled team on the trail and five men. Hand written note states that this photograph occurred: "just after leaving a bunch of ptarmigan at the cook tent. ER...
Title from accompanying notes. "Yukon River before arriving in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. Spent night in Whitehorse." A dock and walkway on the thawing Yukon River.
Title from caption: Steam points, [showin?] means of thawing the gravel. Photograph shows steam points driven into a wall of gravel in an attempt the thaw it.
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...
The collection consists of 42 photographs and brief descriptions, taken during an archaeological dig in Fairbanks. Photographs depict fossils, artifacts, rock and soil formations, gold mining operations and equipment, and landscapes. Persons...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a gold dredge in the distance with men working around it, with a system of pipes in the foreground. Location may be on the Seward Peninsula. Original size is 5.25 x 3.25 in.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a gold field being thawed by steam pipes. It is being prepared for a gold dredge. Original size is 5.25 x 3.25 in.
Title from indexer. Photograph shows a system of steam pipes thawing the permafrost on what may be the Seward Peninsula. Original size is 5.25 x 3.25 in.