A main log building sits on the left side of a gravel road with two small log buildings to the right. Cloudy skies, with no snow on ground. Appears to be summer or autumn.
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from verso. Photograph of sailors on the beach around a stove, cooking a meal. A ski is upright in the left foreground. Verso reads with gaps in narrative due to missing text (gaps and indexer inferences in brackets). "A warm fire...
Title from verso. Photograph of an artillery unit as they watch U.S. aircraft pass over their position. Verso reads: "Attu -- All eyes focus anxiously on the Aleutian skies as American fighting men watch their air arm fly into battle. ...
Title from collection notes. Many people gathered around a few men with skies on, looks like the beginning of a race, American Flag on hill in background.
Photo caption reads "Gertrude Slotsfelt, Anchorage schoolteacher." View of Gertrude Slotsfelt on her skies and next to the motor for the ski lift. To the right of the photo is the lift operator and the arm of someone standing just outside the photo.
Title taken from verso. Verso: President Harding, while seated on the porch of the schoolhouse at the Indian Village of Metlakatla, with Mrs. Harding, Governor Scott Bone and Secretary Wallace, sights an aviator cutting circles in the Alaskan Skies...