This photograph depicts, from left to right: Leonard Rowland, labor contractor; Chester Green, labor contractor; [Mr.] Liseley, civil defense officer; Sergeant Austin, first fire chief of the Big Delta Volunteer Fire Department; Gus Naylor, local...
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy (standing third from left) examining a fire truck at the fire department in Big Delta, Alaska in his role as director of Alaska Territorial Civil Defense, circa 1954-1958. There are four other men in the...
Title taken from caption. View of post office in Big Delta, Alaska. Signs in front of building and on building read: "Big Delta Post Office." 1953-1959. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Donald Arthur Post.
Aerial view of White Alice Communications site at Big Mountain near Mount Iliamna, Alaska, with part of airplane visible at bottom. The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force telecommunication link system constructed...
Aerial view of access road for White Alice Communications site (left) at Big Mountain, Alaska. The White Alice Communications System (WACS) was a United States Air Force telecommunication link system constructed in Alaska during the Cold War. From...
Aerial view of air strip at Big Mountain, Alaska, near Mount Iliamna, with part of airplane visible at right. From slide mount: "Air strip at Big M[oun]t[ai]n 6/14/57." June 14, 1957. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Leland A....
This photograph depicts Harold Pomeroy (at left), director of Alaska Territorial Civil Defense, Gus Naylor (middle), a local Civil Defense director, and Captain Dave P. Tollis (right) of the Alaskan Air Command cutting a ribbon to mark the opening...
Title taken from verso. View of dog standing in yard at McCarty Roadhouse along Richardson Highway at McCarty (later known as Rika's Landing, then Big Delta), Alaska, with pile of logs in background. Photographer's number 248. Summer 1923....
Photograph shows a bull buffalo [bison] during it's Spring molt eating grasses and weeds in a field which still has snow on it. Spruce trees are edging the field.
Title taken from caption. "P 69 Big Diomede, Siberia, Asia, U. S. America, Alaska, Little Diomede". View from boat across ocean of the two islands, dashed line drawn in to separate boundary.
Title taken from caption. View of Bob Reeve in front of his plane on the snowfield used as the airfield for Big 4 Mine. Along the side of the plane it reads "Reeve Airways". Written on the photo are the captions "Pilot Reeve Landed at Mine","Alt...
Title taken from caption. View of Bob Reeve standing by the door of his plane with four miners of the Big 4 Mine next to him. The barrels are most likely fuel for the plane. The writing on the side of the plane reads "Reeve Airways". Bob Reeve...
Title taken from caption. Men and women standing on stairway outside buildings during All Saints' Episcopal Church picnic in Big Lake, Alaska. Also from caption: "Bill Hamilton, Mary Riley [identified in other photos as Mary Rowley], Bev & Bruce,...
Title taken from caption. Men and women at All Saints' Episcopal Church picnic at Big Lake, Alaska. March 1954. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide. Photographer: Donald Arthur Post.
Title taken from front. Imaginary International dateline drawn on iceberg between Big Diomede and Little Diomede Islands. Also from front: "Showing Big and Little Diomede Islands." n.d. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".
Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Caption reads: "Interior "Board of Trade" after the big storm. Nome, Alaska, 1913." A group of men stand inside what looks to be the ruins of a building destroyed by the big storm that occurred in Nome, Alaska on...
Photograph of four pioneers in Big Delta. The people identified and the year they arrived in Alaska are John Hajdukovich-1906, Rika Wallen-1915, Robert Bloom-1898, and Jessie Bloom-1912.