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| |  | $1.250.000 clean up | Title taken from caption.
"$1,250,000 clean up Miners & Merchants Bank, Nome, Alaska. Photographer's number: C 49."
Cataloguers note: This photograph shows gold bars stacked high above ground. | UAF-1989-166-203-Print |
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| |  | 10 Below Cleary Creek | Title taken from caption.
Cataloger's note: This mining site appears to be in full operation. In the center a load of dirt is being dumped; to the right, water is gushing from the elevated sluicing boxes, and onto the piles of tailings below. | UAF-1989-166-88-Print |
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| |  | 10 below Cleary Creek. | Title taken from caption.
See an identical photograph UAF-1989-0166-88. Hand-colored postcard. | UAF-1989-166-1167-Postcard |
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| |  | .105 mm gun and crew on Attu | Title from verso.
Photograph of a .105-mm artillery piece and a crew serving it.
Verso reads:
"This 105-mm gun and its crew poured more than 2000 rounds of shells into Jap [ Japanese ] positions in the course of four days battling at Attu. Jap [ Japanese ] positions blasted were in the Massacre-Chichagof Pass. With the Aleutian base again in American hands, Japs [ Japanese ] stationed on Kiska are becoming the center of attraction for our bombers in the cold country." | UAF-1970-11-55 |
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| |  | $125,000.00 in gold bricks. Assay Office, American Bank of Alaska. Iditarod, Alaska. | Left to right Mrs. F. W. Herms (Emily), Dr. F. W. Herms Sr. and an unidentified man. They are standing in the Assay Office of the American Bank of Alaska (Iditarod, Alaska) in front of $125,000.00 of gold bricks. | UAF-1974-42-4 |
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| |  | 148th Supply Office | Title taken from creator's notes.
Photograph of the 148th Ordnance and Supply's offices.
Notes and captions by Cecil H. Kornegay 7-5-2000. | UAF-1999-204-63 |
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| |  | 15 oz of Tolovana Dust | Title taken from caption. "15 oz of Tolovana Dust, 1917."
Indexer's note - Jewelry cases or small boxes of various sizes and shapes are displayed. "Tolovana dust" could possibly be gold flakes seen here on a saucer, and covered by a drinking glass. | UAF-1963-71-53 |
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| |  | 16 dead rabbits | "Rabbits were a welcome addition at times to the fare. Although my choice always was moose steaks." Panoramic photograph of a brace of sixteen winter furred snowshoe hare. | UAF-1974-114-11 |
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| |  | 1905 Crossing Kennicott Glacier. | Title taken from donor's caption.
" Professor A. E. Seaman at right." | UAF-2003-163-18m |
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| |  | 1905 Indian (Siwash) camp. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"At Tonsina 90 miles from Valdez. The spot we selected for our camp was in a small grove of spruce trees at the head of a deep valley where two glaciers came down out of the towering mountains. We built a large camp of logs with hand-sawed boards for a roof and floor, after which we built a combined cookhouse and dinning room. We stored our supplies on platforms built high in the trees, Indian style, with sheets of tin nailed around the trunks for protection from wild animals.
Additional information was obtained from Potter, Ocha. "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950: Sixty Years," | UAF-2003-163-8m |
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| |  | 1905, Glacier at Lakina River. | Title taken from donor's caption.
" At head of Lakina River." | UAF-2003-163-17m |
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| |  | 1905, gold propectors headed for Fairbanks. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"1905, gold prospectors headed for Fairbanks taken on the Summit --25 miles from Valdez".
Very early one morning we moved our camp over the pass. Heavily loaded, we were late in reaching the summit. Ten days passed before we were ready to move camp. This was my introduction to the life of a pioneer Alaskan prospector. The next seventy days were a monotonous grind. Pushing our loads ahead ten miles until only camp outfit was left. Then a twenty-mile move and a new camp. Bringing up our supplies to camp and then pushing them on ahead another ten miles. That was the routine."
Additional information was obtained from Potter, Ocha. "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950: Sixty Years," 61. | UAF-2003-163-7m |
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| |  | 1905, Indians on trail. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"Indians on trail between Tonsina and Copper River." | UAF-2003-163-9m |
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| |  | 1905, leaving Juneau. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"1905, leaving Juneau [view of Juneau from sea]".
At Juneau we tied up to the dock for a full day. We sailed Westward through icy straits, dodging small floating ice fields and big icebergs from Muir Glacier and out into the open Pacific. Now we were to learn how much punishment a seven hundred ton steamer could take and remain afloat. Food was forgotten. All we asked was to live to get to land -- and sometimes we didn't much care about living. I remember one cold winter night when the old tub kept the engines turning just enough to steer the boat. I went up on top by the smokestack dressed in the warmest clothing I could find and clung there till daylight wondering how it would all end.
" Additional information was obtained from Potter, Ocha. "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950: Sixty Years," 1950, 56 -57. | UAF-2003-163-4m |
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| |  | 1905, Looking up Lakina River. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"1905, looking up Lakina River from 4 miles below our camp, Blackburn Mountains in distance".
"There would be no possibililty of communication with the outside world for two months. We were as completely isolated as we would have been at the North Pole. Our camp was at the base of Mt. Blackburn near the center of a relatively new district, practically unexplored for at least fifty miles east, west and south. North of this area the mountains rose almost straight up eight, ten, twelve thousand feet, perpetually covered with an icecap a thousand or more feet thick with several volcanic vents spouting steam and smoke up through the center, and here and there great glaciers rolling down into valleys or plunging huge masses of ice a thousand or more feet over the cliffs."
[Picture may include Mt. Blackburn, Fireweed Mountain, and Crystalline Hills.]
Additional information was obtained from Potter, Ocha. "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950: Sixty Years," 1950, 64. | UAF-2003-163-12m |
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| |  | 1905, main camp at head of Lakina River. | Title taken from donor's caption.
A cabin stands next to two tents. Behind them are trees and mountains; in front, possibly piles of fuelwood and a rack hung with skins or fish for drying.
"The unwritten law of the early day Alaskan prospectors guarded our cache. A year's work or men's lives might depend upon the pile of supplies by the side of the trail but it was never disturbed by the old timers. The doors of the prospector's camps were never locked. If we left camp for a few days or a week, food supplies were in plain sight on the shelves or hung from nails on the walls. If visitors came they used our food only in emergency and left word of their taking. That was the unwritten law. During my four years experience in Alaska I remember only one loss from theft. A wolverine carried away about 150 pounds of bacon in one night."
Additional information was obtained from Potter, Ocha. "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950: Sixty Years," 1950, 59-60. | UAF-2003-163-13m |
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| |  | 1905, Ocha Potter gets his first Bighorn. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"This head was brought home and mounted. It hung on the wall in the living room of the Ahmeek home from 1920 except for a few summers at Keweenaw Golf Club. These sheep are now (November 1950) almost extinct except in Mt. McKinley National Park where about 640 are still living. This species is know as the Dahl sheep and differs from the Rocky Mountain Sheep."
Additional information was obtained from Potter, Ocha. "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950: Sixty Years," 69. | UAF-2003-163-15m |
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| |  | 1905, Ponto's Road House. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"1905, photo taken at Ponto's Road House 20 miles from Valdez. This malamute dog team held the speed record between Valdez and Fairbanks - over 400 miles in a little over 4 days." | UAF-2003-163-6m |
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| |  | 1905, Professor Seaman and Claude. | Title taken from donor's caption.
Full Title: "1905, in a crevasse in Lakina Glacier, Professor A. E. Seaman at right; Claude (packer) at left."
It had been arranged before I left Houghton (MI), that Professor Seamon (a geologist) was to join our party for the summer and that I was to meet him at Tonsina on the 5th of June.
Additional information was obtained from Potter, Ocha. "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950: Sixty Years," 1950, 64. | UAF-2003-163-16m |
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| |  | 1905, Summer camp. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"1905, Summer camp of Indians on Copper River".
"At Copper River, a half-mile or more wide, we found a camp of Indians who ferried us across, and a day later we were at Tonsina Station." Additional information was obtained from Potter, Ocha. "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950: Sixty Years," 1950, 70. | UAF-2003-163-10m |
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| |  | 1905, Valdez, Alaska. | Title taken from donor's caption.
View of a Valdez commercial street with some people walking in the distance; a mountain is in the background.
"Valdez was a typical, busy Alaskan town of the early pioneer days -- wide open of course. Most of the business houses were saloons, gambling dens and dance halls. There were a few small stores, hotels and homes. All buildings were of flimsy wood construction -- most of them with false fronts.
The town was built on the terminal moraine at the foot of a glacier. It was treeless and windswept but the setting was beautiful. A short distance away on both sides and across the harbor, bare cliffs rose right up into the drifting clouds, 8,000 to 10,000 feet above. Warm moisture-laden winds swept in from the Pacific and dropped their burden along the narrow coast. The snow reached almost unbelievable depths and a few small homes were buried to the eves with tunnels leading from the doors to the snow packed streets above.
" Additional information was obtained from Potter, Ocha. "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950: Sixty Years," 1950, 58 - 59. | UAF-2003-163-5m |
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| |  | 1906 -1907 Headquarters camp. | Title taken from donor's caption.
" Headquarters camp on Chitistone River, Pike Jones in doorway.
It was well along May 1906 when we finally reached the site of our proposed camp on the Chitistone River only a few miles from a pass to the Yukon valley and about 235 miles by trail from Valdez. As we had planned to make this our headquarters for the next fifteen months we erected a substantial log cabin for living quarters. It must have been well built as it was still standing thirty years later when, so I am informed, bears finally tore it down." Additional information was obtained from Potter, Ocha. "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950: Sixty Years," 1950, | UAF-2003-163-23m |
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| |  | 1906 Chitistone River. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"Looking up Chitistone River in late fall." | UAF-2003-163-27m. |
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| |  | 1906 Ladder trail. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"Ladder trail up side of mountain to winter work on claims. There are 3 men on the ladders. Can you find them?" | UAF-2003-163-28m |
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| |  | 1906 Looking down | Title taken from donor's caption.
" Looking down Chitistone from our camp." | UAF-2003-163-24m |
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| |  | 1906 One of our camps on Chitina River. | Title taken from donor's caption.
" Jim Mitchell (an engineer at Michigan College of Mines). at right."
There was only one unsual incident. In a cluster of spruce trees on a bank of Chitina River, a young Indian woman was found dead, with her newborn child beside her. We learned later that she had been with a party of Indian hunters looking for sheep up in one of the valleys at the base of Mt. Blackburn, had become too ill to travel on the return journey and had been left behind to die." Additional information was obtained from Potter, Ocha. "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950: Sixty Years," 1950, 79. | UAF-2003-163-20m |
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| |  | 1906 Sledding our supplies. | Title taken from donor's caption.
" Sledding our supplies through Nizing River Canyon."
Additional information was obtained from Potter, Ocha. "Ocha Potter Papers 1878-1950: Sixty Years," 1950, | UAF-2003-163-22m |
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| |  | 1906 View across Chitistone River. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"View across Chitistone River in fall as snow creeps down." | UAF-2003-163-26m |
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| |  | 1907 Crossing Copper River. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"Indians own the boat and run a ferry for transients." | UAF-2003-163-29m |
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| |  | 1907 Crossing Copper River. | Title taken from donor's caption.
"The two horses at left have stepped off into deep water and have been caught by the current. All these Alaskan glacier streams are swift water. No rowing was necessary as the current varied from three or four to twenty miles per hour."
Additional information obtained from Ocha Potter, "Ocha Potter Papers, 1878-1950: Sixty Years," 1950, 105. | UAF-2003-163-30m |
