Title from verso. Photo is of Fort Gibbon near Tanana, Alaska on the Yukon River. Fort Gibbon was created to reduce lawlessness in the mining camps along the Yukon River during the gold stampedes of 1898-1910. It later provided support for...
Title taken from caption. Caption reads "Sledge Pups. 5 Months Old. Raised at Ft. Gibbon 2-5-13." Verso of postcard reads: "At the Loc. corral in Gibbon. This is the dog crew. The man on right is [boss?] man in middle. Q.M. Driver and I are...
Title taken from verso. View of dog team pulling musher and passenger on sled at Fort Gibbon, Alaska. Dog kennels are at right, other buildings are visible in background, and another person looks on at right of sled. 1910-1920.
Title taken from front. View of building and WAMCATS (Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System) telegraph tower at Fort Gibbon, Alaska. Handwritten inscription on verso reads: "Dear Ann & family, We leave today for San Francisco. Love...
Two buildings at Fort Gibbon, Tanana. The building in the foreground has unusual architectural features and possibly a facade. The building in the background has a gambrel roof. These buildings belong to the WAMCATS...
Title from caption. The name "George Frye" is written on the verso. View of Fort Gibbon buildings behind a fence and an open gate. To the left of the gate a dog and a log building are shown. Behind the fence a row of large and small...
Title from caption. Bottom right corner of the image also bears the inscription "Shade." Image shows several dozen men, women, and children dressed in costumes for a masquerade ball, posing on a wooden floor for a photograph at Fort...
Title from caption. Postcard of Tanana as seen from the tower at Fort Gibbon. The A B [Arctic Brotherhood] Hall is identifiable at the center far right. Narrative in photo album reads: "View of Tanana looking east from the tower in Ft....
Title from caption. The caption (lower left) reads "[Ft. Gibbon] Alaska." A long row of log cabins with a church above them on a hillside. There is a working log pile on the right, and someone's laundry is hanging on the porch of the first...
The Fort Gibbon baseball team is pictured field-side. The caption reads "The Fort Gibbon Team. At Fairbanks, Alaska. July 4, 1913." At bottom right is a signature that looks like "Clemans" or "Clemons", which may mean Basil Edwin Clemons. All of...
Title taken from caption. View of several buildings along the Yukon River at Fort Gibbon, Alaska. From verso: "Water tower and buildings of old Ft. Gibbon on the Yukon. Picture taken from up on wireless tower."
Title from image caption; handwritten note on image: Violet Gorham, in Ft. Gibbon, 1911 Two women sit in a parlor on either side of a piano; ornate wallpaper and paintings decorate wall behind; woman on left has been identified as the madam...
The collection includes images of a 2,500 mile inspection trip to northern and interior Alaska which Governor Parks, Malcolm Elliott (President of the Alaska Road Commission) and R.J. Sommers (Territorial highway engineer) took in 1928.