Images include mining activity around Kennecott, Copper River, Prince William Sound, Valdez and Kodiak. Included are miners, geologists, mining companies and activity and the Fourth of July celebration in Valdez in 1908.

The collection includes excerpts of letters from Levensaler to MacKay written over a period from 1955 to 1971, recounting early mining-related history of Kennecott from his own experience and various sources. Early Alaskan miners and geologists are mentioned in the letters. Levensaler was one of the first members of the Anaconda Geological group in addition to prospecting on his own.

The collection also includes a copy of W.E. Dunkle’s paper, “Economic Geology and History of the Copper River District, Alaska” and a the transcription of a 1959 interview with Levensaler conducted by Henry Carlisle, mining engineer and geologist with the Tonopah Mining Co.