The competition was open to Alaska schoolchildren between grades 7 and 12. Benson was a 13 year old student at the Jessie Lee MIssion Home in Seward. The competition was organized by the American Legion, who collected a total of 142 entries from...
Note on slide reads "Trapper cabin on Yukon." Snow covered cabin with smoke trailing from smokestack. Cabin is surrounded by snow. An axe leans against a large log.
Title from verso. A young man wearing hat and gloves stands outside of a wooden shed in the snow. An axe and a shovel handle are visible leaning against the shed.
Title from verso. Image shows a young man standing in snow in front of a wooden shed. An axe and a shovel are also shown leaning against the shed on the right side of the image.
Title from verso. Image shows Karstens and McGonagall, members of the 1910 Mount McKinley climbing expedition, standing outside of a building in Fairbanks circa 1950. The men are both dressed in shirts, slacks and ties. Karstens is wearing a...
Title from verso. Image shows Karstens and McGonagall, members of the 1910 Mount McKinley climbing expedition, standing outside of a building in Fairbanks around 1950. The men are both dressed in shirts, slacks and ties. Karstens is wearing a...
Family photograph of John Minook, his family and home. Identifications made by Robert E. King, cousin to Sally's husband Samuel Heeter, with the data Alfred Mayo's last surviving child, Mrs. Antoinette (Mayo) Roberts Woods of Rampart & Fairbanks,...
Title from cataloger. Lawyer Rivenburg in front of a wood pile with an axe in hand. Narrative in the album reads: "Myself in my out of door working dress, slipper moccasins, ordinary sweater jacket, beaver cap and moose skin mittens. Working...
Title from previous photograph UAF-2009-123-350, current caption in album: "Aug 1 - Another exposure". Photograph shows some camp supplies, such as a box and an axe handle. Mount McKinley can not be seen.
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 taken from caption on Album. Cataloguer's note: An outdoor portrait of an Alaskan Native woman holding what appears to be an axe, with one hand and another heavy gear on the other hand. Notice too the rifle nearby. This unseemly 'bear...
Title taken from accompanying notes. An Alaska Native man standing in the snow, wearing large snow shoes. In one hand, he holds a piece of wood shaped like a rifle, wrapped in cloth; in the other, an axe.
Title from accompanying notes. A man attached to a rope on his way out of a crevasse. A pick axe and rope lie below him on the snow and ice that had collapsed.
Title from accompanying notes. View uphill of a man climbing mountain. The mountain slope is barren and quite steep. The man is tethered with rope, and he carries a pick axe or walking stick.
Title from accompanying notes. "Heading back to Camp 3 at the Col. Pete on summit of West Bona with summit of Mount Bona in the background." Man in red parka with backpack. On top of the pack are two poles with an American flag and a...
Title from accompanying notes. "24 April, the day I leave the expedition to return to Seattle. Camp 3--my Japanese friends who are special to me (left to right): Shige (aka Camera), Fire, West, Dragon, Hiro, Bamboo, Mitche, and Hat." Eight...