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B1989.016.MinerEJ.1
(Miner EJ Passport Photos 1942)
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection / Passport Photos
B1972.046.19
{4 miners and dog on the banks of a river actively working a sluice box}[there is writing on the front of the image but cannot decipher}
Keywords: miners, mining
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble
B1989.016.2198.16
(Gold mining, Nome) [two miners and tram car on tracks in mine, one miner holding pick. Probably Lomen Bros. photographers. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.064b
[verso of slide: miners work a creek, sluice, shovels; hand colored]
Collection: B2018.023
B1963.X.11.40
Miners Cabin, Cascade Mt #418 (Non Alaskan)[postcard of cabin in the Cascade Mts]
Keywords: cabin, camp, mountains, mining
Collection: B1963.x_011 CIHS Reeve
B1995.014.28.15
F-E Co. 1942 [miner operating machinery, Fairbanks Exploration Co.]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.011.186
Alaska ’47 – Valdez, falls in Mineral Creek valley [scenic of waterfall]
Collection: B2017.011
B2017.021.18
48. Klondyke & White Pass [miners working at placer mining operation]
Collection: B2017.021
B1998.014.1.1083
M19 Alaskan gold miner [man at sluicebox, water, possibly creek; bots, waders]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.1084
M19 Alaskan gold miner (photo by E. Tetinik) [copy neg; same as .1083]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2144.22
Underground on #16 Eldorado. 66 (Old Klondike) [two miners with shovels and wheelbarrows. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.28.13
F-E Co. 1942 [miner panning, supplies on ground at right, Fairbanks Exploration Co.]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1995.014
B2017.021.10
Pacific Stereopticon Co. [two miners thawing ground. Image cropped with loss of original caption]
Collection: B2017.021
B1995.014.28.14
F-E Co. 1942 [miner emptying bucket of gravel on rock pile, Fairbanks Exploration Co.]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.108.13
Jim Douglas's grave, he died in 1947, alone, he was a miner [white picket fenced grave with marker for James A. Douglas]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.108.14
Jim Douglas's grave, he died in 1947, alone, he was a miner [white picket fenced grave with marker for James A. Douglas]
Keywords: funerary customs, religion
Collection: B1995.014
B1995.014.28.16
F-E Co. 1942 [two miners working sluice box at Fairbanks Exploration Co. mining operation]
Collection: B1995.014
B2001.041.037
Pioneer Miners on the trail looking for a fortune, Nome Alaska {three men in winter pulling a large sled through snow}
Keywords: winter, mining
Collection: B2001.041 Goetze
B1973.079.034
[Eleven Caucasian men in front of Miners and Merchants Supply Co., St. Michael, Alaska? With dog team and supplies] [orig neg only]
Collection: B1973.079 Cron Collection
B2017.021.7
Pacific Stereopticon Co. [miner on riverbank, holding pan with gold. Image cropped from original in printed publication. Tinted. Glass cracked]
Collection: B2017.021
B1989.016.1038
GZ-103 (Miner in Winter, Scenes in Golden Zone) [man in parka and mittens outside door of walled tent at Golden Zone Mine]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2144.17
#52 [Miners Waiting to Register Claims?] (Old Klondike) [men waiting outside log building. caption nearly illegible. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2198.15
[three miners posed at mining operation, one with pan, one with pick, one with shovel. Probably Lomen Bros. photographers. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1998.014.1.1305
(O88 Alaska & Texas maps compared) [map of Alaska indicating mineral deposits taken from book page - same map as .1304]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1998.014.1.2597
Cabin at Renner's mine; Mills Creek, Alaska; Hettel's [Man and woman standing on porch of log cabin; likely John and Polly Renner, miners]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1995.014.76.12
Miners from Willow waiting to go to Seattle [group portrait of five men standing outdoors in winter, one holding axe, others carrying baggage]
Keywords: mining, clothing
Collection: B1995.014
B1998.014.1.1304
(O88 Alaska & Texas maps compared) [image of Alaska map taken from book, hand modified by photographer to remove mineral data and adjacent territories]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B1989.016.2144.14
33. #40. [?] Larss & Duclos (Old Klondike) [miners at mining complex, standing on tramway, camp in background. orignal caption illegible. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2197.10
(Parade, Nome) [marching band passing A.J. Mueller Jeweler and Miners and Merchants Cafe. Lomen Bros. photographers, probably Fourth of July. circa 1918. copy neg]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1989.016.2198.8
Lomen Bros. Nome #878 [hydraulic mining on Snow Gulch, Pioneer Mining Co., miners, tents, man on horseback. copy neg, original caption cropped from image]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B1995.014.102.14
[two miners, one wearing mosquito netting, working to load rocks onto drag line, wooden dam in background, mining plant or buildings on bluff above, Fairbanks Exploration Co.?]
Collection: B1995.014
B1997.013.065
Two Miners at Cave (White & Black Man) [pick, shovel, and gold pan, large dog lying in front; Muirhead; same as .118; see .118 for caption and photo credit]
Collection: B1997.013
B1991.030.7
Mendenhal USGS 1898(Mendenhall Camp of Miners at Spruce Camp head of Turnagain Arm Cook Inlet County)[9 men and a dog standing amid several tent structures and a newly constructed log cabin]
Keywords: survey crew
Collection: B1991.030 Castner Collection
B1998.011.014
.14—[man standing in doorway of log building with signs: “Miners Exchange / Restaurant Bar / Wines, Liquors, _____, _____,” “Beer, Tea,” “Pabst Beer,” “Coffee & Pie,” “For Sa__.”
Collection: B1998.011
B1989.016.2204
The "Giants" at Work, Miocene Ditch Co.'s Operations on Glacier Creek, Alaska, Aug. 7th, 1910. Lomen Bros. #741 [hydraulic mining, miners and two women in lower left of image. copy neg]
Keywords: mining
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2015.001.2
Earl Carlson, Mr. Fur Face 1982, being crowned at Miners & Trappers Ball (to be held on Sat. night) [hands placing fur crown on bearded man holding trophy, Anchorage Fur Rendezvous]
Collection: B2015.001
B2022.005.15
Mrs. K. F. Waldhelm. Nome, Alaska. [Indigenous Alaskan man and woman with dog outside midwinter. Image signed by Kathinka Waldhelm, wife of George Waldhelm, miner and proprietor of George's Gold Nugget Shoppe.]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Man, Woman, Outside, Winter, Snow, Dog, Mrs. K. F. Waldhelm, Mrs. Waldhelm, Kathinka Waldhelm
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1991.39.2
1956 Panoramic photograph of downtown Fairbanks, including Noble Street, Northward Bldg, Nordale Hotel, News Miner Bldg, Cushman Street Bridge and the Chena River. National Photo and News service image number 929561
Keywords: 1956, Fairbanks; Panoramic photograph; Cushman Street Bridge, Chena River; National Photo and News Service; Nordale Hotel, Northward Bldg
Collection: B1991.39
B2016.022.148
Miners who left for Kobuk River on Str. John Reily [sic], Sept. 29th, ’03. Nowell, 174 [group portrait of men posed outside of Keewalik Hotel, Alaska Native men at left, several dogs in foreground]
Collection: B2016.022
B1972.046.70
{wide assortment of men, gear, tents and horses preparing before going over Chilkoot Pass}
Keywords: mining, miners
Collection: B1972.046 Vernon Humble
B1989.016.2197.9
The parade, Nome, Alaska, July 4th 1918. [automobile filled with flag-waving children passing U.S. Coast Guard boathouse and Miners and Merchants Cafe. Lomen Bros. photographers. copy neg, original caption cropped out of image]
Collection: B1989.016 Lu Liston Collection
B2018.023.060a
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “58” “…ld Goose Co. Sluicing on Discovery Day Creek, Nome, Alaska” [likely Wild Goose Co.; miners at sluice boxes, water, equipment; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B1998.014.1.1127
(O17 Prospectors, vintage, 1898, 1946 postcard. note reads: Kasper Elinger & Fritz Miller discover Atlin country) [copy neg; two men and dog near river; gun, rifle, iron skillet,possibly waders, rucksack, miners]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley
B2018.021.245
Rondy, ’54 [three men and woman sitting at table, one man wearing Fur Rendezvous pin, one man possibly Chinese American, cans of Hamm’s Beer and Pabst Blue Ribbon on table, probably Miners & Trappers Ball]
Keywords: Fur Rendezvous
Collection: B2018.021
B1990.014.5.People.19.162
People - Rondy - 1955 2-3922-55; Wes Heverling, Bill Bittner [two men wearing suits stand at microphone while audience seated at tables watch; cameras; icicle decoration overhead; possibly at Miners & Trappers Ball in Elks Club]
Collection: B1990.014 McCutcheon Collection / B1990_014_5 / B1990.014.5.People / People / People 19
B2018.023.060b
J. Sussman Stock Photo Co. Balto. [Baltimore?] [label] “58” “…ld Goose Co. Sluicing on Discovery Day Creek, Nome, Alaska” [verso of slide: likely Wild Goose Co.; miners at sluice boxes, water, equipment; black and white image]
Collection: B2018.023
B2022.005.14
Mrs. K. F. Waldhelm. Nome, Alaska. [Small Indigenous Alaskan boy in fur (likely reindeer) parka holding dead bird at side; midwinter. Image signed by Kathinka Waldhelm, wife of George Waldhelm, miner and proprietor of George's Gold Nugget Shoppe.]
Keywords: Indigenous, BIPOC, Alaska, Alaskan, Boy, Child, Fur, Parka, Reindeer, Hide, Skin, Clothing, Outerwear, Mukluks, Footwear, Bird, Dead bird, Harvest, Subsistence, Winter, Snow, Mrs. K. F. Waldhelm, Mrs. Waldhelm, Kathinka Waldhelm
Collection: B2022.005 Amidon
B1998.014.1.1828
(T127 Fairbanks 2nd Ave) [street scene; people on sidewalk at right; automobiles, flag hanging over street; businesses: Pioneer Cab, Coca-Cola billboard, Monsey's Pantorium Cleaners, Circle Hot Springs billboard, Daily News Miner, Lucille's Apparel, Peerless Coffee Shop]
Collection: B1998.014 Brickley