Title from cataloger notes. Full note reads: "Celebrating the opening of the Fairbanks country Club and Fairbanks Golf Course on Farmers Loop Road near KFAR radio tower."
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...
Title taken from verso. View of commercial slide for television station KFIA advertising Idle Hour Country Club in Anchorage, Alaska. Dec. 22, 1953. Photographer: Ward W. Wells. Original photograph size: 8" x 10".
"A view of the rough country at the head of the 70 Mile River, running into the Yukon, below Eagle. The Ott and Scheele partners had a placer mining show developed on Crooked Creek, a tributatry of the 70 Mile." Panoramic photograph of the rough...
View of a Civil Aeronautics Administration party held at the Idle Hour Country Club in Spenard, Anchorage, on October 13, 1944. From verso: Left to right: B. Black, Marshall C. Hoppin (Alaska Regional Manager), Sam Kelly, H.T. "Til" Hopewell...
Slavery was an accepted custom in many Native tribes. On May 8, 1886, District Judge Layfayette Dawson in Sitka decided that the Thirteenth Amendment and the 1866 Civil Rights Act abolishing slavery applied to the "uncivilized tribes" of Alaska. ...
Relief shown by shading and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. Cover title: Map of the Kotzebue Sound country, Alaska, the new gold fields, including the basins of the Kobuk or Putnam, Selawik and other rivers explored by the U.S. Naval...
Title from caption in album, caption reads: "Feb 11 - Silver fox about in willowy country behind cabin woods". Photograph shows rocky mountain slopes and peaks with snow on them.
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 stereograph. "343-13329 -- Eskimo Girls and part of Crew of Steamship Eric at Uper-Navik, northernmost Danish trading post, Greenland"
"Upernavik is the northernmost Danish trading post in Greenland. Greenland, as you...
Title taken from caption. "9065 -- (1) In the summer of 1897 our Uncle Samuel began to discern what a bonanza he had bought from Russia 30 years before. From Sitka to Siberia the vast country seems to glitter with gold. There is said to be...
Title taken from caption. "11502 -- (12) The interior of Alaska is generally well-timbered, and there are large tracts of good grazing country. In these conditions we are not surprised to find considerable large game. There are several...
Title taken from caption. "L.T. Erwin's Teams with largest loads of wood ever hauled in the country largest load 7 1/2 CDS, smallest load 6 CDS. Photo by Johnson."
Title taken from caption. "L. T. Erwin's teams Hauling in the country largest load 7 1/2 CDS, smallest load 6 CDS. Photo by Johnson." See identical photograph UAF-1989-166-383 & postcard UAF-1989-166-1186. Black & white postcard.
Title from image caption Full caption: "The largest gold nugget found in Copper River country; weight 51 oz. 4 DWT; value $900.00; property of Oregon-Shushitna Mining Co.; found by Dan S. Kane on Lucky Gulch, a tributary to Valdez Creek, Aug....
Title from image caption Full caption: "Sample of gold from Nugget Gulch, Susitna Country, tributary to Seward, Alaska. Mined by Herndon, Jacobs & Morris, 1906. Value over $3,600.00."