Skip to main content

Folder PCA0002-5

 Container

Contains 56 Results:

The Valdez pipe storage yard for the trans Alaska pipeline project as it appeared in the fall of 1971. In the center, background, is the then partially cleared site for the pipeline’s marine tanker terminal., Fall 1971

 Item — Folder: PCA0002-5
Identifier: PCA0002-5-11
Content Description From the Collection: The collection contains both slides and photographs taken during the pipeline construction. Subjects include personnel, equipment, bridge construction, the winter environment, wildlife, pump stations, Port Valdez, the Haul Road and the terminal. There are several views of archaeologists from UAF working at the site. The 589 slides generally correspond to six typewritten progress reports, which begin in March 1976, when the pipeline was about 45% complete, and end in April 1977 at 95%...
Dates: Fall 1971
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 2, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company : Trans-Alaska Pipeline Construction Collection, 1976-1977 / PCA 2 Folder 5: [photographs] 1-56.

Forty-eight-inch-diameter pipe for the trans Alaska pipeline was originally stored at the pipe yards here at Prudhoe Bay, and at Fairbanks and Valdez. Beginning in 1971, nearly 165 miles of 40-foot and 60-foot joints of pipe filled the Prudhoe Bay yard, awaiting transfer to field staging sites., 1971 - 1977

 Item — Folder: PCA0002-5
Identifier: PCA0002-5-12
Content Description From the Collection: The collection contains both slides and photographs taken during the pipeline construction. Subjects include personnel, equipment, bridge construction, the winter environment, wildlife, pump stations, Port Valdez, the Haul Road and the terminal. There are several views of archaeologists from UAF working at the site. The 589 slides generally correspond to six typewritten progress reports, which begin in March 1976, when the pipeline was about 45% complete, and end in April 1977 at 95%...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1971 - 1977
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 2, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company : Trans-Alaska Pipeline Construction Collection, 1976-1977 / PCA 2 Folder 5: [photographs] 1-56.

One of the first link-ups of the 360-mile Prudhoe Bay to Yukon River highway occurred when construction crews working from the north and south met at this site on the tundra between Prudhoe Bay and Franklin Bluffs construction camp. A total of 32 million cubic yards of gravel were required to build the road., 1976 - 1977

 Item — Folder: PCA0002-5
Identifier: PCA0002-5-13
Content Description From the Collection: The collection contains both slides and photographs taken during the pipeline construction. Subjects include personnel, equipment, bridge construction, the winter environment, wildlife, pump stations, Port Valdez, the Haul Road and the terminal. There are several views of archaeologists from UAF working at the site. The 589 slides generally correspond to six typewritten progress reports, which begin in March 1976, when the pipeline was about 45% complete, and end in April 1977 at 95%...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1976 - 1977
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 2, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company : Trans-Alaska Pipeline Construction Collection, 1976-1977 / PCA 2 Folder 5: [photographs] 1-56.

Some of the most difficult terrain on the trans Alaska pipeline project is in the Atigun Pass area. During construction of the road from Prudhoe Bay to the Yukon River, crews used large drills to bore holes for blasting operations atop the 4,800-foot-high pass., 1974 - 1977

 Item — Folder: PCA0002-5
Identifier: PCA0002-5-14
Content Description From the Collection: The collection contains both slides and photographs taken during the pipeline construction. Subjects include personnel, equipment, bridge construction, the winter environment, wildlife, pump stations, Port Valdez, the Haul Road and the terminal. There are several views of archaeologists from UAF working at the site. The 589 slides generally correspond to six typewritten progress reports, which begin in March 1976, when the pipeline was about 45% complete, and end in April 1977 at 95%...
Dates: 1974 - 1977
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 2, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company : Trans-Alaska Pipeline Construction Collection, 1976-1977 / PCA 2 Folder 5: [photographs] 1-56.

Road building equipment climbs a slope north of the Yukon River (visible in background), near Five Mile camp on the first day of construction of the trans Alaska pipeline project, April 29, 1974., 1974-04-29

 Item — Folder: PCA0002-5
Identifier: PCA0002-5-15
Content Description From the Collection: The collection contains both slides and photographs taken during the pipeline construction. Subjects include personnel, equipment, bridge construction, the winter environment, wildlife, pump stations, Port Valdez, the Haul Road and the terminal. There are several views of archaeologists from UAF working at the site. The 589 slides generally correspond to six typewritten progress reports, which begin in March 1976, when the pipeline was about 45% complete, and end in April 1977 at 95%...
Dates: 1974-04-29
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 2, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company : Trans-Alaska Pipeline Construction Collection, 1976-1977 / PCA 2 Folder 5: [photographs] 1-56.

Long arctic summer days assisted construction of the 360-mile pipeline construction road from Prudhoe Bay to the Yukon River. This photo taken shortly before midnight in mid-June 1974, is of earth-moving equipment near Galbraith Lake camp, about 140 miles north of the Arctic Circle., mid-June 1974

 Item — Folder: PCA0002-5
Identifier: PCA0002-5-16
Content Description From the Collection: The collection contains both slides and photographs taken during the pipeline construction. Subjects include personnel, equipment, bridge construction, the winter environment, wildlife, pump stations, Port Valdez, the Haul Road and the terminal. There are several views of archaeologists from UAF working at the site. The 589 slides generally correspond to six typewritten progress reports, which begin in March 1976, when the pipeline was about 45% complete, and end in April 1977 at 95%...
Dates: mid-June 1974
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 2, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company : Trans-Alaska Pipeline Construction Collection, 1976-1977 / PCA 2 Folder 5: [photographs] 1-56.

Two-story dormitories, similar to these at Pump Station 1 at Prudhoe Bay, were erected as living quarters for construction workers at nine pump station sites along the 800-mile route of the trans Alaska pipeline., 1974 - 1977

 Item — Folder: PCA0002-5
Identifier: PCA0002-5-17
Content Description From the Collection: The collection contains both slides and photographs taken during the pipeline construction. Subjects include personnel, equipment, bridge construction, the winter environment, wildlife, pump stations, Port Valdez, the Haul Road and the terminal. There are several views of archaeologists from UAF working at the site. The 589 slides generally correspond to six typewritten progress reports, which begin in March 1976, when the pipeline was about 45% complete, and end in April 1977 at 95%...
Dates: 1974 - 1977
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 2, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company : Trans-Alaska Pipeline Construction Collection, 1976-1977 / PCA 2 Folder 5: [photographs] 1-56.

A Hercules C-130 aircraft, modified to haul fuel, transfers its 7,000-gallon load to a fuel tank farm at Happy Valley construction camp for the trans Alaska pipeline, north of the Brooks Range., 1974 - 1977

 Item — Folder: PCA0002-5
Identifier: PCA0002-5-18
Content Description From the Collection: The collection contains both slides and photographs taken during the pipeline construction. Subjects include personnel, equipment, bridge construction, the winter environment, wildlife, pump stations, Port Valdez, the Haul Road and the terminal. There are several views of archaeologists from UAF working at the site. The 589 slides generally correspond to six typewritten progress reports, which begin in March 1976, when the pipeline was about 45% complete, and end in April 1977 at 95%...
Dates: 1974 - 1977
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 2, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company : Trans-Alaska Pipeline Construction Collection, 1976-1977 / PCA 2 Folder 5: [photographs] 1-56.

A tug boat pulls two barges laden with supplies off the Arctic Coast to their destination at Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska’s north slope. This view of the Beaufort Sea in mid-summer shows large ice floes already beginning to accumulate., 1974 - 1977

 Item — Folder: PCA0002-5
Identifier: PCA0002-5-19
Content Description From the Collection: The collection contains both slides and photographs taken during the pipeline construction. Subjects include personnel, equipment, bridge construction, the winter environment, wildlife, pump stations, Port Valdez, the Haul Road and the terminal. There are several views of archaeologists from UAF working at the site. The 589 slides generally correspond to six typewritten progress reports, which begin in March 1976, when the pipeline was about 45% complete, and end in April 1977 at 95%...
Dates: 1974 - 1977
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 2, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company : Trans-Alaska Pipeline Construction Collection, 1976-1977 / PCA 2 Folder 5: [photographs] 1-56.

Galbraith Lake pipeline construction camp, one of seven original camps built for the trans Alaska pipeline project in the winter of 1969-1970, is located in the northern foothills of the Brooks Mountain Range., 1970 - 1977

 Item — Folder: PCA0002-5
Identifier: PCA0002-5-20
Content Description From the Collection: The collection contains both slides and photographs taken during the pipeline construction. Subjects include personnel, equipment, bridge construction, the winter environment, wildlife, pump stations, Port Valdez, the Haul Road and the terminal. There are several views of archaeologists from UAF working at the site. The 589 slides generally correspond to six typewritten progress reports, which begin in March 1976, when the pipeline was about 45% complete, and end in April 1977 at 95%...
Dates: 1970 - 1977
Found in: Alaska State Library - Historical Collections Finding Aids / PCA 2, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company : Trans-Alaska Pipeline Construction Collection, 1976-1977 / PCA 2 Folder 5: [photographs] 1-56.