Earl and Natalie Norris talk about learning about sled dogs and moving to Alaska, selling and donating dogs to search and rescue, Natalie's arrival in Alaska, meeting Earl, the use of Natalie's dogs during World War II for northern latitude search...
Title from verso. Photograph of canvas covered boat transporting supplies from a Navy ship to St. George Island. Verso reads: "Pribilof Islands -- Using light, canvas-covered native boats, crewmen of the USS Thuban bring supplies to the...
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,...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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66 second film clip, color/silent, of people gathering and transporting fire wood.
A woman, working in front of a semi-subterranean house, is chopping kindling; another woman appears to be setting a small snare; men are using dog sleds to...
56 second, black & white/silent, film clip. The clip shows the transporting and sorting of copper ore. Transport is via ore cars and aerial tramways and conveyor belt. The clip was taken from the movie "The Story of Copper."
One minute, black & white/silent, film clip. The clip shows the transporting of copper ore in mine carts and ore chutes. The clip was taken from the movie "The Story of Copper."
40 second, color/silent film clip. Clip shows a system, made mostly of logs, for getting the contents of mine carts down to a road via a chute and hopper. The system appears to be under construction.
A man is carrying (transporting) a canoe on his head, using one hand to balance the canoe, while the other hand is holding a canister or perhaps a gas can. The man is walking along a field of tall grass or possibly some type of grain. In the...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "April 6 -- Transportation vehicles ranging from dog sleds to military aircraft were used by the American Red Cross in transporting emergency relief supplies and personnel into Alaskan...
Title from verso. "Transporting plane from field to Bay - after change to pontoons early 1930's. Kay J. Kennedy. Mail: 12831 N. E. 83rd St. Kirkland, Wa. 98033."
Title taken from caption. Portrait of Alaska Native boys transporting expedition supplies. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from front. Men drop firebox for steamer Chitina while transporting it by horse drawn sled, near Valdez, Alaska. Photo is property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. Photographer's number G1168. n.d. Photographer: P.S. Hunt.
Title taken from front. Mr. Whitney, a farmer, transporting freshly butchered hog meat to the market in Anchorage, Alaska, by horse drawn wagon. Also from front: "A.E.C. G921." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number G921....
Title taken from front. Men with seven dog teams four miles out from shore transporting freight from steamship S.S. Corwin over the ice to Nome, Alaska. S.S. Corwin in background at right. Photographer's number A990. June 2, 1907. Photographer:...
Title taken from label on matting. View of slaughterhouse at Froshland reindeer processing plant in Shaktoolik, Alaska, with man standing near building and track between buildings for transporting carcasses to cold storage. Photographer's number...
Title taken from label on matting. View of cold storage building and slaughterhouse at Froshland reindeer processing plant in Shaktoolik, Alaska, with track between buildings for transporting carcasses to cold storage building. Photographer's...