"Rifle practice at twenty below zero. Members of the 1st Scout Battalion of the Alaska National Guard on the rifle range during the Guard's Encampment at Fort Richardson, Alaska. Alaska guardsmen must be prepared to fight in all kinds of weather."
Title from indexer. Photograph shows some large and small building that appear to be part of a community as seen from a frozen river. Caption from album reads: "Koyukuk consists of a store, U.S. Government schoolhouse, telegraph station,...
(3:28 min.) (13 of 28) 13. Whitehorse and Fairbanks
George stayed awhile in Seattle and saw Boeing in full wartime production. Eighteen to twenty B-17's a day were produced. He went to Whitehorse, YT. Bill Lavery was a pilot for Morrison...
Title taken from back of stereograph. "The story of Peary's attempts to discover the North Pole is a tale of heroism. For twenty years he struggled before he finally succeeded. He made his first trip to Greenland in 1886 when he was a young...
Title taken from caption. "11555 -- (6) Judging from his suit and hood of fur and his team of dogs, we might mistake the boy in this picture for an Esquimau.
In 1898, at the time of the great rush for gold, he was the only white boy on...
"For my friend Ernest Gruening. Twenty years of close association and the handclasp is still naturally firm! From Bob Bartlett, Washington D C, June 27, 1959."
Title taken from accompanying notes. "Seward Highway bridges over Twenty-mile creek, Portage Ak., following the Alaska Earthquake and tidal wave 3/30/64 (Aerial Photo)". View of the collapsed automobile bridge lying on river ice. The railroad...
Title taken from donor's caption. "The two horses at left have stepped off into deep water and have been caught by the current. All these Alaskan glacier streams are swift water. No rowing was necessary as the current varied from three or four...
Title taken from caption: "Tug Chilkat breaking a way through scattered floes twenty miles off Ugashik on June 5, 1918." View of the tugboat "Chilkat" maneuvering around ice floes near the steamer "Dora" near Ugashik, Alaska in the Bering Sea....
This collection consists of twenty 35 mm color slides of pipeline construction, possibly out of the 5 Mile Camp. The images were taken in the summer of 1977 by Bill Lathan, a surveyor for Arctic Surveying. Images include views of the compressor...
Title taken from caption. Possibly offshore from Amlia Island. View of Captain H.W. Stinchcomb, of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne, displaying a bald eagle. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "The Captain and some of the crew came ashore to...
View of crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa preparing for a fishing trip to Lake Kenai. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "On Sunday twenty five of the seamen and three officers hired a truck to take them to Lake Kenai for a...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "Wineman, Gebhard, Guggenheim, Connor, May and Seashore." Portrait of the 1937 expedition members. From May's journal, dated June 18th: "We landed from the launch... and as it was fairly bright the...
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.