Title from accompanying notes. "29 March. Pepi & Hat at milepost 1000." One man in a winter hat, a red sweater, and boots is taking a photograph of the milepost 1000 on the Alcan highway. Another man, wearing snow-pants and holding a camera, is...
Title from image and caption. Photograph of the SS Humbolt just prior to travel to Alaska. Narrative in photo album reads: "Right -- Our boat at dock enroute from Seattle to Skagway, 1000 miles by the 'Inland Water Route'."
Title taken from caption. "Hell Gate" Klutena rapids, from the upper trail 1000 ft above. Nov. 25 - 98. Photographer: P.S. Hunt, Photo No.96." Reproduced from glass plate.
Title taken from caption. " S. S. Portland unloading railway supplies, and the John C. Potter with 1000 tons of coal, at Alaska Home Ry. wharf, Valdez, Sept. 23, 1907. " Photographer: P. S. Hunt, photo No. G1625.
Title from caption. "Amundsen on arrival N______" (possibly Nome). The last word of the caption is illegible due to a blemish on the photograph. Verso reads: "Historical photograph Collection in the Archives, University of Alaska Fairbanks."...
View of White Alice Communications site at Northeast Cape Air Force Station at Northeast Cape on Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska. The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force telecommunication link system constructed in...
Alan May poses in front of Mendenhall Glacier. From May's journal, dated May 27th: "The glacier is indeed a very wonderful sight - stupendous and magnificent. ...The blue and green coloring of the icy depths has to be seen to be believed."--p. 12....
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Title from album note Additional information from album: During 1916 and 1917, numerous cave-ins were occurring in the upper levels of the mine; in order to protect the Treadwell, Mexican, and "700" mines, the bulkhead was constructed in the...
Title from image caption Aerial view, looking north, showing planes from Carrier Force on ramp at Naval Air Station, with Adm. Building in background; focal length 6 5/8”, Alt. 1000’
Title from image caption Aerial view, looking N.N.W., showing planes from Carrier Force on ramp at
Andrew Lagoon,Naval Air Station; focal length 6 5/8”, Alt. 1000’
Title from image caption Full caption: "Aboard the government cable ship, BURNSIDE, Wednesday, August 24, 1904, for the official splicing of the two sections of the Alaska Cable, [which] took place ten miles from Seattle on the return of the...
Title from verso John Kill’s Meat Market at Nome, Alaska; cattle were driven overland 1000 miles, Skagway to Nome by trail, pulling sleds and packing supplies, which were sold at Nome Meat hangs from walls, and vegetables are arranged in...
Title from image caption Verso: "Leaving Skagway on trip to Nome, about 1000 miles overland" Men, teams of horses, and ox-drawn sleds on trail; snow covered mountains in background