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B2015.025.533
Mining: Coal: Colorado: Coal beds at Colorado [man working at coal seam]
Collection: B2015.025
B2015.025.542
Mining: Coal: Colorado: Digging coal at Colorado [mining area in winter]
Collection: B2015.025
B2015.025.529
Mining: Coal: Colorado: Coal beds at Colorado [bulldozers, men, at mining area]
Collection: B2015.025
B2015.025.503
Mining: Coal: Colorado: Coal beds at Colorado [railroad tracks, possibly railroad cars]
Collection: B2015.025
AEC.JT06
Healey River Coal Corporation Mines Healey Forks Alaska [ coal seams as seen from the Healey River]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B2015.008.1293.dk336.10
336.10. Above Chitistone River, Alaska. Coal near Miller’s claims. 9.13.16 [scenic of coal
seams in pass area]
Keywords: mountaineering, mountain, river
Collection: B2015.008
B2015.008.1293.dk336.10crop
336.10. Above Chitistone River, Alaska. Coal near Miller’s claims. 9.13.16 [scenic of coal
seams in pass area]
Keywords: mountaineering, mountain, river
Collection: B2015.008
AEC.JT04
No 4 Healey River Coal Corporation Mines Healey Forks Alaska
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1989.016.590.1
30. Healy River Coal Mines. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.590.2
30. Healy River Coal Mines. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1979.002.Album.Coal.Chute.Nenana
Coal Chute at Nenana (Transferring from Standard to Narrow Gauge) Dec. 11, 1921
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1984.077.6.007
[railroad tracks, lumber, ramp to building, possbly coal loading? mounains in distance]
Collection: B1984.077
B2015.025.521
Mining: Coal: Colorado: Tundra above Broad Pass; man standing in tundra]
Collection: B2015.025
AEC.G1990
A.E.C. G1990 HG Kaiser The Healy River Coal Mines Sep. 10 - 1922
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1979.002.4884
(Cronin #10)(Lynn Coal Mine Special carrier near Nenana River Bridge 1919)
Keywords: train, transportation, railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1984.077.6.008
[train engine, elevated rail car possibly for loading coal? building, mountains in distance]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.2114
(Suntrana Coal Company) [bird's eye view of mining complex at Suntrana. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.590.4
30. Coal veins along the Alaska Railroad. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [Healy]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.5785
[view down track in winter, possibly coaling chute at left. Has neg dated 5/27/46]
Collection: B1995.010
B1989.016.1653.2
30. Healey River Coal Veins. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage, Alaska [man standing on coal veins at Healy River. Photo credit, probably Johnson & Tyler, scratched off negative]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1973.079.30
[A view from the harbor of the north american transportation and trading co.s warehouses with Cron's coal house on right]
Keywords: harbor, wharf, buildings, port
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B1979.002.Album1.283
84. Matanuska Coal Mine [view of mine entrance on side of hill, railroad exploration, circa 1914]
Keywords: Alaska Railroad, mining
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / Album 1
B1984.077.9.012
[Men, ore cart, narrow guage track, logs, steel barrels, coal? tower (above cart)]
Collection: B1984.077
B1989.016.1109.1
P-393. 8/31/36. Hewitt's Photo (Machinery in early Palmer) [The Iron Fireman automatic coal burner]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.1109.2
P-393B. 8/31/36. Hewitt's Photo (Machinery in early Palmer) [The Iron Fireman automatic coal burner]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
AEC.G745
Loading station, mess cabin, and new office, Eska Creek Coal Mine. A.E.C. G745, P.S. Hunt.
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
AEC.JT01
Healey River Coal Corporation-Mines Healey Forks, Alaska JT1 Johnson & Tyler Anchorage Alaska
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
AEC.TT264
T 264 Healy Camp, Showing Healy River Coal Bunkers #2 L.N. Oct. 1, [19]21
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1979.002.5012
Coal chute at Nenana transferring from standard to Narrow guage_Dec 11 1921 (Nenana AK 12-11-21)
Keywords: railroad
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1975.175.306
(Alaska Mt McKinley September 1938)(Alaska Road Commision coal mine at mile 42 (highway)Alaska Range N.E. of Mt McKinley)
Keywords: national park, landscape
Collection: B1975.175 Ickes Collection
B1974.040.046
Canneries. Anchorage. Princess pat, a trading boat to load on sacked Matanuska coal at old Emard Dock; Sonnecke Cannery is to rear. 1937.
Collection: B1974.040 Charles Weller Collection
AEC.TT265
T265 Healy Camp Showing Healy River Coal Bunkers#1, L.S. Oct 1 21[mulitple buildings next to and around railroad tracks]
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1979.002.4886
(Cronin #14 Group of Patriots ready to board box car end of steel at lynn Coal Mine and hiking from there to dead horse (Curry) for enlistment)(1919)
Keywords: railroad, train, transportation, hiking
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC
B1989.016.1653.3
30. Healey River Coal Veins, Healey, Alaska. Johnson & Tyler, Anchorage. 11, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [Healy River canyon]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.010.5684
Concrete foundation of former Naval coaling sta. development at Sutton on Glenn Highway [concrete stairs and arches on lot, mountains in background. has neg dated 5/27/46]
Collection: B1995.010
B1998.014.1.1282
O82 Flower growing, pioneer wagon, Seward, Alaska [delivery wagon in meadow, wording on side: "Alaska; tel; Coal, (see .1283 for complete wording)]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
AEC.G909
A.E.C. G909 Mile 78-79 A.E.C. -R.Y. Sep. 11 - 1918 Placing the last ties. Completing the Road between Seward and the Coal Fields. HGK
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC / AEC
B1989.016.590.3
30. Healy River Coal Mines. Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [Alaska Railroad train with engine No. 614, with banners including one for "Frank Reed's National [?]"]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.2079
"V11 Zucchini squash" [cat sits next to large squash and ruler; wagon wheel in background; letters painted on wood structure read: "coal wood ic" (ice)]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.1653.1
30. Healey River Coal Veins. Johnson & Tyler, Anchorage, Alaska. 7, Hewitt's Photo Shop, Anchorage [Healy River. Johnson & Tyler credit scratched off negative]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2017.033.263
Historical marker at Matanuska River on ARR, 10-8-78 [interpretive marker about Jack Dalton and Chickaloon coal deposits; print date Oct 77] [Ahtna, Nay’dini’aa Na’ Kayax]
Keywords: Matanuska River, River, Chickaloon, Nay’dini’aa Na’ Kayax, Coal, Deposits, Historical, Marker, Sign, Jack Dalton, Dudley Westler
Collection: B2017.033
B1998.014.1.1283
O82 Sourdough Express wagon spending old age growing flowers. E.L. Senft home, Seward. [wagon labeled: "Alaska Transfer; tel. main 17; coal, wood, ice" in meadow used as planter]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1979.002.1158
floods Nenana 5/48 File 411-17 5-22-48 _Eng 556 in Nenana Flood opposite coaling station 30" inches water over rails at this point_
Negative Nenana "flood" #17 [train partially submerged under water]
Keywords: flood, trains, transportation
Collection: B1979.002 AK Railroad and AEC