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Results below are from the Alaska Digital Archives which includes material from institutions all over the state. You can sort by clicking on the column header.

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image thumbnail VSM's have been destributed [sic]. Machines are drilling holes to set them in. This is a permafrost area north of the Brooks Range. Title taken from verso. View of machinery drilling holes for vsm's (vertical support members) to hold pipes during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction near Franklin Bluffs on North Slope in Alaska. Also from verso: "Near Franklin Bluffs." Sept. 1975. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 8" x 10 1/8". AMRC. McCutcheon Collection;
image thumbnail VSM's have been set, and cross members attached - pipe has not yet been distributed. Title taken from verso. Aerial view of construction crews and vsm's (h-shaped vertical support members) in place during Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction near Kuparuk River in Brooks Range, Alaska. Also from verso: "Near the Kuparak [sic] River crossing north slope of the Brooks Range." July 1975. Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 10 1/8" x 8". AMRC. McCutcheon Collection;
image thumbnail Wainwright to Wrangell-Spring only Fannie Negovanna. Title from verso. Portrait of Fannie Negovanna wearing a ruff. As a little girl, Fannie lost her parents a TB outbreak in the North Slope region. She went to Wrangell and was later adopted by Weir and Roseanna Negovanna. Information and identification courtesy of her eldest daughter, Lucille A. Mayer. Ethel M. (Clayton) Montgomery. Photographs, 1934-1989. ASL-PCA-348
image thumbnail Western slope of limestone mountain. Title taken from caption. Caption reads in its entirety: "Western slope of limestone mountain on the north bank of Joe Creek halfway between monuments 17 and 18. Strats are closely folded with steep dips many being vertical. July 7, 1912." Annotations to the right of the image include an arrow pointing at the creek running horizontal about 1/3 the way up from the bottom labeled Camp Cr. and one on the diagonal below that labeled Joe Creek. A. G. Maddren photographs, 1906-1914. UAA-HMC-0166;
image thumbnail Winter work at 42 below zero on the crossing of the Sag River with a buried pipeline. Title taken from verso. Winter view of Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction on buried pipe at 42 degrees below zero at Sagavanirktok River on North Slope in Alaska. 1975? Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 10" x 8". AMRC. McCutcheon Collection;
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 Working in the flood plain of the Sag River. Title taken from verso. Aerial view of Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction across Sagavanirktok River on North Slope in Alaska. 1975? Photographer: Steve McCutcheon. Original photograph size: 10 1/8" x 8". AMRC. McCutcheon Collection;

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