Includes forecast of wind and weather in the North Pacific for July, U.S. weather and temperature signals, U.S. storm signals, fog signals, time ball, steamer routes from Brito to Yokohama and Hongkong, equator crossings for sailing passages in the...
Title taken from sign on building. View of entrance to building housing Platinum Radio, radio station in Platinum, Alaska. Building also houses telegraph office and weather station. Sign above door reads: "Platinum Radio. Goodnews Bay Mining Co. -...
Title taken from image. Five men in front of a corrugated steel building marked "No.3"; possibly a volunteer fire department. Automobile and other wooden buildings, including the Northern Commercial Co., are also seen. American flag is topped by...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title from accompanying notes. Several yellow buildings, three red and white radio communication towers, wires, weather gauge apparatus; several smokestacks, and telephone poles.
Woman examining travel posters during 14th Annual Flower Show sponsored by Anchorage Garden Club and held in First National Bank of Anchorage lobby at 4th Avenue and G Street in Anchorage, Alaska. Theme of show was "Around the World with Flowers."...
"My cold weather outfit. Beaver cap, Caribou coat, moose hide fur trimmed mittens, woolen pants, moosehide moccasins and on the snowshoes made for me by Sarah Bob one of the Ketchumstuk tribe squaws of the Forty Mile Indians. These snow shoes are...
W. B. Drawbaugh, Weather Bureau Meterologist puts aerometeorograph in place on weather flight plane at Fairbanks field while pilot Harold Gillam prepares to take off.
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a row of small houses along the beach in Nome, Alaska. Large chunks of driftwood sit on the beach in front of them. Caption from finding aid reads "Nome area, weather beaten houses and drying rack"....
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Back row: Billy Bergman, Ceza Bergman, one of their children, but can't be identified. Front row: Edward and Louie Bergman, but can't tell which is which. Taken in Allakaket,...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Weather cleared. People on the Muldrow Glacier awaiting the 1st airdrop by Cliff Hudson. The North Peak (not the true summit on Mt. McKinley) is the peak on the right."
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Cliff got in at 1:20 PM to make 1st airdrop in fast changing weather. He was gone by 1:35."
Title taken from caption on postcard. An indoor picture of a man sitting on a small chair wrapped in a sheet holding a box over his head and his feet submerged in a pan of warm water (steam appears to be rising from the pan). The man is visibly...
Title from verso. "In the winter of 1942-43, Sir Hubert Wilkins, celebrated Arctic explorer, visited Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska, to help solve some of the problems that arose in pushing lend-lease planes through to Russia during one of the...
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...