Title from verso. Photograph of men carrying fence stakes for barb wire defenses. Verso reads: "U.S. soldiers who have just landed on the Aleutian Island 63 miles from Kiska, tote a mess of [unreadable] stakes for barbed wire...
Mammoth ivory sinker tapered on both ends. On the top of the sinker there is a darkened area (outter core). The sinker has one circular hole drilled into each end for line attachments. Looped through the bottom hole in the sinker is wire (picture...
Title from caption.
Photograph of a wagon laying out telegraph lines. Caption with photo reads: Eight miles of wire was strung in this manner, five months before the line was built. In summer wire could be handled only by pack-mule, one coil...
Title taken from front. View of wire footbridge alongside the Valdez Yukon Railway, Southcentral Alaska. 1906. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 5 1/2".
Title from cataloger's notes. Image shows a grassy hillside with wooden fencing and structures on it, and trees and mountains in the background. Photo appears to be taken through a wire fence as wire can be seen at the bottom and barbed wire...
View of Rural Electrification Administration antenna pole at left in Homer, Alaska. Red gas can sits at far right, while excess wire and fire wood are visible in foreground. From slide mount: "Homer #1 5-10-55 REA antenna pole on left of tree to...
Photograph shows three dairy cows lounging and grazing in a field with the remains of harvested broccoli crop downslope of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Experimental Farm buildings. The large red dairy barn is...
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...
Title taken from caption.
Caption reads: Camp at 89. The best camp of the season. Clear ice-cold water, plenty of good fuel, fish, large and small game, no dust nor mosquitoes or gnats. While encamped here much of the wire transferring was...