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image thumbnail James Edwin Morrow Photographs. The James Edwin Morrow Photographs consist of 121 color transparencies and slides with images of various places in Alaska taken in the early to mid 1960s and in 1971. Subjects include Chicken, Ninilchik, Kachemak Bay, Homer, Kenai, Seldovia, Nenana, Fort Yukon, and Rampart, Alaska; the Yukon and Kandik Rivers; and Alaska’s North Slope.James Edwin Morrow (1918-2002) was professor of zoology at the University of Alaska for seventeen years, from the 1960s through the early 1970s. He authored a number of works on the fish and fisheries of Alaska. James Edwin Morrow Photographs
image thumbnail Link up of the Haul Road, 1974-1976 34 second film clip, color/silent, of aerial view of the completion and dedication of the North Slope Haul Road.Two bulldozers close the last section of road and, as a crowd looks on, a woman cuts the ribbon. KTVF Television Film Collection; Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska, Fairbanks;
image thumbnail Fumarole No. 32. Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "Mud pot on north slope of Fumarole No. 32. Activity of pot is shown by large bubbles, strings, and drops of mud." Photo taken in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and Preserve during National Geographic Society expedition to Katmai area. 1919. National Geographic Society. Katmai Expeditions. Photographs, 1913-1919. UAA-HMC-0186;
image thumbnail People of Point Hope, 1941 58 second film clip, color/silent, of activities on a playground in Point Hope.The clip shows women and children in what appears to be a school yard. Children are playing on a swing set. Bags stacked on the beach indicate that this film was probably taken when supplies were being off-loaded from a ship. North Slope Borough School District Collection; Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska, Fairbanks;
image thumbnail Point Hope activities, 1941 48 second film clip, color/silent, of people engaged in various forms of handiwork.Women are working with leather, perhaps crimping soles with their teeth; another woman is sitting on a semi-subterranean building, grinding something with a pestle; several women are scraping skins; one is skinning a small animal; a man is carving a mask. Several tools, including an ulu, are in use. North Slope Borough School District Collection; Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska, Fairbanks;
image thumbnail Point Hope offloading supplies, 1941 60 second film clip, color/silent of residents of Point Hope offloading supplies.The ship is anchored off in the distance as men, women and children carry supplies up the beach. Boards have been set up as a ramp so barrels can be rolled over the sand. North Slope Borough School District Collection; Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska, Fairbanks;
image thumbnail Anaktuvuk Pass, 1950. 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 transport logs; interspersed are shots of children and dog mushing. North Slope Borough School District Film Collection; Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska, Fairbanks;
image thumbnail Deering cleaning fish, 1950 34 second film clip, color/silent, of women and children cleaning fish on the beach near Deering, Alaska. North Slope Borough School District Film Collection; Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska, Fairbanks;
image thumbnail Deering setting & hauling fishnet, 1950 70 second film clip, color/silent, of fishing near Deering, Alaska.A man and a boy in a small rowboat set the net and haul it in. People on shore help pull it in and pick the fish out. North Slope Borough School District Film Collection; Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska, Fairbanks;
image thumbnail Man making fishnet and hauling in salmon at Deering, 1941-1951 35 second film clip, color/silent, of a man making or repairing a fish net and hauling a load of salmon onto the beach. North Slope Borough School District Film Collection; Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska, Fairbanks;
image thumbnail Traditional underground dwelling at Barrow, 1945-1946 34 second film clip, color/silent, of a traditional winter underground house. North Slope Borough School District Film Collection; Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska, Fairbanks;
image thumbnail Women jigging for fish, 1945-1955 38 second film clip, color/silent, of women fishing through the ice. First the hole is dug and cleared of slush, using a chisel and an ice scoop, then the women sit and jig for fish using a hand-line. North Slope Borough School District Film Collection; Alaska Film Archives, University of Alaska, Fairbanks;
image thumbnail Demientieff, Claude interview (05/17/1985) (04 of 09) (9:17 min.) (04 of 09) Business history Crooked River; Talkeetna; oil company; haul fuel; Bettles; Hanson Brothers; Evans, Charlie; Walker, David; Brown, Chuck; railroad; retirement; President Reagan; construction; North Slope; Anchorage; business loan; self-employed; Cushman Street; Nobel Street; Wendell Street Bridge; 1970; Nulato store; Oral History Interviews, Alaska & Polar Regions Collections
image thumbnail Demientieff, Claude interview (05/17/1985) (06 of 09) (9:56 min.) (06 of 09) River conditions villages; Galena; Fairbanks; hauled horses; north slope; big wheels; Yukon River bridge; couldn't get passed rapids; pushed it over; Lyndon transport; rapids downstream; fast; Rampart; advertising; Bush Creek; Beaver; no set schedule; Koyukuk River; Huslia; navigating through sand; horsepower; Rampart Oral History Interviews, Alaska & Polar Regions Collections
image thumbnail Geographic provinces of northwestern North America. Shows Alaska and western Canada indicating designations of geographic regions: Pacific Mountain System, Central Plateau Region, Rocky Mountain System, Arctic Slope and Great Plains Region. "Professional Paper No. [blank] Pl.I." Published in [Washington D.C] by Geological Survey (U.S.) in [1900?] (E175 00 W095 00 N70 00 N50 00). Rare Maps Collection, Alaska & Polar Regions Collections
image thumbnail Map and chart, Point Barrow to Cape Bathurst, including the MacKenzie River delta and inland to Fort Yukon, Alaska. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. "Drawn by G. Noetzel. Engraved by W.P. Sefton and J.A. Waddey." "Issued with H.O. Chart No. 68 as a supplement." "No. 1189." "Printed July, 1890." Annotated. Published in [Washington, D.C.] by the United States Hydrographic Office in 1890. Scale is not given (W156 00 W127 00 N73 00 N66 00). Rare Maps Collection, Alaska & Polar Regions Collections;
image thumbnail Seismic crew equipment checks in at Fox permit station on way to North Slope. Title taken from verso. View of trucks hauling equipment for seismic crew checking in at Fox, Alaska, on their way to North Slope during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction. March 20, 1976. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10". Steve McCutcheon Trans Alaska Pipeline System Construction Collection
image thumbnail Howard Sears setting gillnet in overflow of channel of Yukon River, 20 miles upstream from Fort Yukon. North Slope Arctic DDT Pesticide Fish Sampling, August 1-13, 1969. Title and description taken from inventory. Theodore R. Merrell Photograph Collection, 1969 DDT Arctic Survey. ASL-PCA-490
image thumbnail Overflow channel where fish were sampled, Yukon River, 20 miles upstream from Fort Yukon. North Slope Arctic DDT Pesticide Fish Sampling, August 1-13, 1969. Title and description taken from inventory. Theodore R. Merrell Photograph Collection, 1969 DDT Arctic Survey. ASL-PCA-490
image thumbnail Camp on Yukon Island, 20 miles upstream from Fort Yukon. Howard Sears pitching tent. North Slope Arctic DDT Pesticide Fish Sampling, August 1-13, 1969. Title and description taken from inventory. Theodore R. Merrell Photograph Collection, 1969 DDT Arctic Survey. ASL-PCA-490
image thumbnail Howard Sears pitching tent on island in Yukon River, 20 miles upstream from Fort Yukon. North Slope Arctic DDT Pesticide Fish Sampling, August 1-13, 1969. Title and description taken from inventory. Theodore R. Merrell Photograph Collection, 1969 DDT Arctic Survey. ASL-PCA-490
image thumbnail Native fish wheel in Yukon River at Fort Yukon. North Slope Arctic DDT Pesticide Fish Sampling, August 1-13, 1969. Title and description taken from inventory. Theodore R. Merrell Photograph Collection, 1969 DDT Arctic Survey. ASL-PCA-490
image thumbnail Native fish wheel in Yukon River at Fort Yukon. North Slope Arctic DDT Pesticide Fish Sampling, August 1-13, 1969. Title and description taken from inventory. Theodore R. Merrell Photograph Collection, 1969 DDT Arctic Survey. ASL-PCA-490
image thumbnail Native fish wheel in Yukon River at Fort Yukon. North Slope Arctic DDT Pesticide Fish Sampling, August 1-13, 1969. Title and description taken from inventory. Theodore R. Merrell Photograph Collection, 1969 DDT Arctic Survey. ASL-PCA-490
image thumbnail Native fish wheel in Yukon River at Fort Yukon. North Slope Arctic DDT Pesticide Fish Sampling, August 1-13, 1969. Title and description taken from inventory. Theodore R. Merrell Photograph Collection, 1969 DDT Arctic Survey. ASL-PCA-490

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