Exterior of the Frontier Book & Gift Shop in Kodiak. Signs on the building read: "Frontier Book & Gift Shop" "Souvenirs from the Last Frontier" "Frontier Library". A car is parked outside the store; a bicyclist rides by on the sidewalk. Original...
(4:11 min) (20 of 27) Haul Road -- Cook & conditions
Cook volunteered to go along when he heard about project. He handed out cookies to the kids, helped in building community relations. Construction was moving slow; there were just not...
Title taken from caption. "9198 -- (22) The city of 'Sheep Camp' was the metropolis of the Dyea trail. Those who have never visited a booming frontier mining camp will find it difficult to appreciate the rapidity with which such camps acquire a...
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
View of section of Alyeska Pipeline mounted on wheels on display at Alaska State Fair in Palmer, Alaska, with man and woman standing to left. Building, vehicles, and people are in background and at right. Writing on pipe reads: "Section of Alyeska...
Title taken from verso. View of storefront for Romick's Men' Wear at 307 4th Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska, with men standing on sidewalk. Signs on buildings read: "Romick's Men's Wear," "Frontier Saloon," and "Union Cab. Dial 23201." Also from...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Natives of Old Harbor standby [stand by] during their evacuation by the Navy following the Alaska Earthquake and Tidal Wave 3/27/64. Official U. S. Navy Photographs for immediate release. ...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note.
"Kodiak's Earthquake of March 27th caused this separation in a runway apron, aboard the U. S. Naval station. The earthquake caused minor damage compared to the amount of destruction...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note.
"Marginal Pier aboard the U. S. Naval station, Kodiak, shows the destructive power of Alaska's tidal waves which struck March 27th. For immediate release official U. S. Navy photograph,...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "Seabees work in near 100 mile per hour winds and sub-freezing temperatures to put portable boilers into operation to supply heat to Navy housing aboard the U. S. Naval Station, Kodiak,...
Title taken from caption. View of the exterior of the Elmendorf hospital on Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. From verso: "USAF hospital Elemendorf [sic] is a modern seven-story facility built for 350 beds. It employs more than 450 highly trained...
Sign for Earthquake Park, where huge tracts of land slid into the Inlet during 1964 Alaska Earthquake, in Anchorage, Alaska. Seal with totem pole and Alaska flag at left. Sign reads: "Alaska Purchase Centennial 1867-1967. Earthquake Park. 'And...
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from label on matting. View of Fairbanks, Alaska business district, with cars parked along street and pedestrians in right background. Also from label: "Modern concrete and brick buildings have been erected among the old-type frontier...
Title taken from accompanying text. Text: In the foreground is Annahootz and beside him is Mary Klan Tech daughter of a subchief of the Kokwanton clan. Mary was sent by Annahootz to warn the white population of Sitka on the night of February 6th....
Audio file of a 45 RPM Phonographic Record of Alaska Flag Song. Total running time: 3 minutes, 49 seconds. Words by Marie Drake, music by Elinor Dusenbury. Original record issued by Royal Records, Douglas, Alaska, ca. 1940's-1950's. Visual elements...