W.H. Carroll photographs, 1936-1941.

ArchivalResource

Carroll, W.H. (Bill). W.H. Carroll photographs, 1936-1941.

W.H. Carroll photographs, 1936-1941.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/692530695

The W.H. Carroll Photographs includes black and white pictures of various sizes. The bulk of the photographs are from 1938-1940 and includes pictures of mining work in Ester and Cripple Creek, hydraulic mining, pictures of the Cripple Creek dragline and dredges such as the Fairbanks Exploration Company Dredge, the Chatanika Dredge and Gold Dredge number 10. The Carroll Collection also has pictures of life at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (then the University of Alaska) and also photographs and memorabilia of the 1939 Fairbanks Ice Carnival and Dog Derby. In addition, this collection has pictures of the Nenana Ice Classic Tripod, a fish wheel, pictures of the Circle Hot Springs Hotel, and General Store and Trading Post, totem poles. This collection includes pictures of Howard Hughes when he visited Fairbanks in 1939 in his airplane. Additionally, many of the mining and Alaska travel photographs are located in two notebooks that had notes and observations by Carroll, and served as photo albums.

0.25 cu. ft.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library