Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "We've arrived. Mt. Brooks as seen from McGonagall Pass. This is THE opening to our route up the Muldrow Glacier (and eventually the summit)."
Title from attached caption. Photograph of a soldier and a civilian helping a refugee child off a bus following the 1964 earthquake and resulting tsunami.
Full caption reads: " Evacuees Arrive In Fairbanks. Citizens of Valdez arrived by bus...
Title taken from front. The U.S. Cruiser Maryland arrived in Seward, Alaska with a crew of 810 on July 30, 1912. Naval staff from the Maryland investigated the Alaskan coal reserves while in port. Original photograph size: 3 3/8" x 5 3/8".
Title taken from front. Sled dog teams line up on Fourth Avenue in front of Brown & Hawkins after bringing a load of gold dust in from the Iditarod gold fields, Seward, Alaska. From front: "1/2 ton gold dust largest shipment ever carried by dog...
View of Valdez, Alaska with snowy mountains in the background. The photograph was taken by Irving Reed from the steamer Alameda while traveling from Seattle to Seward. The Alameda arrived in Seward on March 14, 1920. The...
View down Fourth Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska on March 15, 1920. The store on the left looks like it says Brown & Hawkins. Another photograph (AMRC-b65-2-4) says there is a Brown & Hawkins store on 4th Avenue. There was...
Title taken from verso. Full verso reads: "Leaving The Tanana Valley on my way to Washington, D. C. Same dog team I arrived with." Verso also stamped: "From Haubell & Company. 536 Lake Shore Drive. Chicago, ILL." Slim Williams was a...
Photograph of four pioneers in Big Delta. The people identified and the year they arrived in Alaska are John Hajdukovich-1906, Rika Wallen-1915, Robert Bloom-1898, and Jessie Bloom-1912.
Title from verso. Photograph of canvas umiaks shuttling cargo from a Navy vessel to St. George. Verso reads: "Five of 16. Last Long Mile -- Although cargo to the Pribilofs arrived at destination aboard a modern Navy transport which also...
Color postcard postmarked from Cordova, Alaska on Jul. 13, 1909 and addressed to Mr. L.J. Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. Written on verso, "Cordova, Alaska. June 10, 09. Dear folks at home, I arrived in...
Color postcard is postmarked from Seattle, Wash. on Jun. 9, 1909 and addressed to Mr. L.J. Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas. Written on verso, "Hotell [Hotel] Northern. June 9, 09. Dear Father, Mother, Sisters and Brothers. I...
Title from caption. Photograph of loading a boat onto flatbed railroad cars for transport to Whitehorse. Boat is named Happy Hooligan after the Simons & Blakes vaudeville outfit which arrived in Skagway on May 17, 1905. Caption...
Title from donor notes. Additional donor notes read: "David Frankson was the Point Hope postmaster. (Mail arrived by air three times a week from Kotzebue, weather permitting and pilot willing. When Bishop Gordon was priest-in-charge at Point...