Verso: Original is 7½ x 18" print in possession of Skagway friend of Mildred Sparks, Haines. Copy print by Sara Besser Bldg. was later Haines House Farmer's Cottage after 1924. Known names: (l to r.) F. Barnett, Vera Sindhaln, Nellie Hopkins,...
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 by indexer. This is a half-length black and white portrait photograph of Morris Thompson (1939-2000). Thompson an Athabascan was born and raised in the Yukon River village of Tanana. A well respected leader, he had served his community in...
Title taken from front. G.L. Morris Co. preparing to transport a boiler for Darling & Dean Co. via horse drawn wagon, Nome, Alaska. Business shown: Golden Gate Hotel. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." 1910. Photographer:...
The Coleen M. Platner Photographs (ca. 1909-1920s) contain photographs of pioneer children and their families living in Alaska, chiefly Iditarod, Chatanika, Little Eldorado City, and Eldorado Creek. There are also photographs from Nome and the...
Title taken from caption. View of two Alaska Native men aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Morris. En route to Nikolski. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from verso. View of Masonic Temple building in Anchorage, Alaska, at corner of 4th Avenue and F Street, south side, with church at left and antenna visible over buildings. Businesses shown include: Oyster Loaf (restaurant), J.C. Morris...
Title from verso. Verso: In the Fall of 1970, then Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel met with Prominent figures in the Alaska Land Claims dispute in his Washington office. Clockwise from far left: Wally Hickel; Tim Wallis, President...
"Norwood operating the 'giant', Meilandt watching. The spring of 1918 on Jack Wade Creek, in the Forty Mile country. Jimmy Morris one of the miners that I first met there, said these true words 'Mr. Norwood, this gold mining is allright, but,...
Title taken from caption. "Dick Morris - Trapped Beaver Creek - Yukon Flats 1920-48. Shown Here With a Mixed Catch of Fur." The dates (1920 -55) are given on the back of the photograph.
Title taken from caption. Crewmember from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Morris holding a bald eagle he'd shot. From May's journal, dated June 19th: "Some of the boys from the Morris came ashore to hunt eagles, but only one of them was successful. The...
Title taken from caption. The Executive officer of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Morris and Aleš Hrdlička. Photograph taken during the 1937 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from front. View of McKinley Park Road House, Mt. McKinley National Park (later called Denali National Park and Preserve), Alaska, with men standing in front. Roadhouse was run by Maurice Morino, who is one of the men pictured. From...
Photo has individual people labeled, from left to right: C. D. Garfield, Oscar Ashby, Dr. Whitehead, [Bratuster?], Morris, Lang, Harry Leland, Cunningham, [Soduburg?]. Photo also has the number "5404" written in the...
Title from verso. Verso: Jumping For Joy-When the news of statehood reached the arctic village of Kotzebue, the town started jumping. Here pretty Laura Mae Beltz goes aloft, via walrus hide blanket toss, carrying a flag that will soon have a...
Title taken from caption. "Beaver and Yukon Flats Men - L to R, Frank Yasuda, Trader and Founder of Beaver, Bob Myers, E.H. Hagen, Foster Sisson, Olaf Solvik and Dick Morris."
Title from image caption Full caption: "Sample of gold from Nugget Gulch, Susitna Country, tributary to Seward, Alaska. Mined by Herndon, Jacobs & Morris, 1906. Value over $3,600.00."