Box PCA0197
Container
Contains 52 Results:
Wiseman, our jumping-off place, 200 miles airline from railroad or automobile, and 1500 miles as supplies must be hauled on the rivers.
Item — Box: PCA0197
Identifier: PCA0197-1
Scope and Contents
[view from across the river]
Dates:
1929
Pioneers of Alaska, men who have been isolated from the outside world for from 20 to 31 years. Billy Burke, Aze Wilcox, Jess Allen, Martin Slisco, Smithy Wanamaker, Carl Frank, George Huey, Pete Davey, Jack Hood, Earl Workman. Aze and Jack have never seen an auto.
Item — Box: PCA0197
Identifier: PCA0197-2
Scope and Contents
[full length group portrait]
Dates:
1929
Primitive navigation at Wiseman.
Item — Box: PCA0197
Identifier: PCA0197-3
Scope and Contents
[man paddling low open boat]
Dates:
1929
Mosquito protection by day.
Item — Box: PCA0197
Identifier: PCA0197-4
Scope and Contents
[Robert Marshall (left) and an unidentified man in mosquito net hats]
Dates:
1929
Mosquito protection by night. Glacier Creek Camp.
Item — Box: PCA0197
Identifier: PCA0197-5
Scope and Contents
[man at campfire near tent]
Dates:
1929
Niggerhead country at mouth of Bonanza Creek.
Item — Box: PCA0197
Identifier: PCA0197-6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This is a collection of 24 photographs with descriptions showing the terrain along the North Fork of the Koyukuk River north of Wiseman, Alaska. The file includes two maps of the Koyukuk and Hammond River drainages by Robert Marshall and others.Marshall was in the region during the summers of 1929, 1930, and 1931 and the winter of 1930-31, studying tree-growth at its northernmost limit and mapping the area. For an account and additional information, see his "Reconnaissance of...
Dates:
1929
North Fork of the Koyukuk flowing by island (left) where we were almost marooned. Low water on way out.
Item — Box: PCA0197
Identifier: PCA0197-7
Scope and Contents
Compare with (23)
Dates:
1929
Barren plateau north of Slatepile Mt., scene of our all night retreat from the mosquitoes (July 31). Gates to the Arctic in center background.
Item — Box: PCA0197
Identifier: PCA0197-8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This is a collection of 24 photographs with descriptions showing the terrain along the North Fork of the Koyukuk River north of Wiseman, Alaska. The file includes two maps of the Koyukuk and Hammond River drainages by Robert Marshall and others.Marshall was in the region during the summers of 1929, 1930, and 1931 and the winter of 1930-31, studying tree-growth at its northernmost limit and mapping the area. For an account and additional information, see his "Reconnaissance of...
Dates:
1929
Frigid Crags, west pillar of the Gates.
Item — Box: PCA0197
Identifier: PCA0197-9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This is a collection of 24 photographs with descriptions showing the terrain along the North Fork of the Koyukuk River north of Wiseman, Alaska. The file includes two maps of the Koyukuk and Hammond River drainages by Robert Marshall and others.Marshall was in the region during the summers of 1929, 1930, and 1931 and the winter of 1930-31, studying tree-growth at its northernmost limit and mapping the area. For an account and additional information, see his "Reconnaissance of...
Dates:
1929
Boreal, east pillar of the Gates.
Item — Box: PCA0197
Identifier: PCA0197-10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This is a collection of 24 photographs with descriptions showing the terrain along the North Fork of the Koyukuk River north of Wiseman, Alaska. The file includes two maps of the Koyukuk and Hammond River drainages by Robert Marshall and others.Marshall was in the region during the summers of 1929, 1930, and 1931 and the winter of 1930-31, studying tree-growth at its northernmost limit and mapping the area. For an account and additional information, see his "Reconnaissance of...
Dates:
1929