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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Photograph of a foot bridge at mile 88 of the WAMCATS trail. Caption with photo reads: Foot log at 88. Used during break-up by pack trains.
Title from caption. Photograph of two horses hauling 45 foot poles across the frozen Tanana River. Caption reads: Hauling 45 foot poles across the Tanana river, to rebuild Tolovana crossing, during a blizzard. (Casey and Q M [Quarter Master]...
Title taken from front. People board a train from the Alaska Northern Railway in Seward, Alaska. The depot was located at the foot of Adams Street. 1909? Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Title taken from creator's notes. Notes read: Cecil's friend, Newell Kelly, posed on a maintenance vehicle beneath the foot bridge in front of the Catholic Church. This foot bridge did not go across the Chena. It actually paralelled the river...
Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Shows area from Cape Decision to Mt. St. Elias and Pt. Riow. Insets: A survey of Port Protection; A survey of Port Conclusion; Entrance into Cross Sound. Engraved by T. Foot. No. 12 in Vancouver's A...
A tracklaying vehicle with two people attending to it, under one end of the Graehl bridge. Many of the photographs from UAF-2007-64-116 to UAF-2007-64-131 depict the construction or...
Title from caption in album: "Aug 9 - Breaking camp foot of Muldrow Glacier". Photograph shows two men standing next to a few donkeys. This photograph is very blurry.
Title from caption in album: "Aug 1 - Later in the day - Mt. McKinley from foot of Muldrow Glacier". Photograph shows Mt. McKinley in the distance, with some small trees and shrubs in the foreground.
Title from caption in album: "Aug 4 - Breaking camp at foot of Muldrow Glacier". Photograph shows two men in their campsite next to a tent. Three horses are standing nearby, unsaddled and grazing.
Title from caption in album: "Aug 5 - Camp on the trail at foot of divide going over to head of west branch of Toklat". Photograph shows a man sitting in his campsite next to a pot on top of a campfire. There is also a teapot behind him. There...
Title from caption. Photograph of a scow shooting Miles Canyon near Whitehorse, YT. Caption reads: "Shooting Miles Canyon on scow, the waters of this Box Canyon run very swift and many early stampeders lost their lives [on] it decending in...
Title from indexer. Additional narrative in donor notes reads: "Our sled dog Iolanthe, bred by Milton Swan in Kivalina, lost much of her left hind leg when, with her stake-out chain accidentally wrapped around it during one winter night, her...
The John W. Chapman Family Papers consist of material relating to John Wight Chapman and May Seely Chapman and their work as Episcopal missionaries at Anvik, Alaska (1887-1930), as well as family correspondence, genealogical information,...
Title taken from caption. View showing new concrete sidewalk on Fourth Street between E and F in the Anchorage town site. During the summer of 1917, 18 blocks of 12 foot concrete sidewalks, and two blocks of 6 foot concrete walks were...
Title taken from text. Album caption: Shows a 700 foot span of No. 13 guage steel wires to reach the top of a bluff opposite Delta station. From the top of this bluff the wires drop across the Tanana River, to the right. This in order to give...
Title taken from caption. View of bull kelp plant laid out with a six foot long stick beside it for scale. Photo taken at Kodiak Island during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1917. Photographer: Robert F. Griggs.