Title from verso. "Main street of Anchorage, Alaska 4th Avenue. Summer 1953." A large street banner reads: "Anchorage Fur Rendezvous. All for fun, fun for all. Anchorage Community Chorus and Act Inc. Aug 17 thru 22. Down in the Valley."
View of the starting point of the 1966 Fur Rendezvous sled dog race on 4th Avenue in Anchorage, Alaska. The highest banner reads: "Pepsi-Cola Scholarships at State Finals, Miss Alaska Pagent, West High Auditorium, February 25 - 8:00 PM, An Official...
View of signs in Valdez, Alaska. Signs read: "Motel Valdez Alaska small boat launching area", and "Have fun at Valdez the Switzerland of Alaska. Valdez is the farthest north, ice free port, on the North American continent. Columbia Glacier &...
Title taken from caption. View of fur pelts hanging at either side of sign for Anchorage Fur Rendezvous and people in street in Anchorage, Alaska. Mount McKinley Apartments are in far left background. Sign reads: "Anchorage Fur Rendezvous. All for...
View looking east down Fourth Avenue from F Street in Anchorage, Alaska. Sign across street in foreground reads: "Anchorage Fur Rendezvous. All for fun. Fun for all." Sign across street in background reads: "Anchorage. All-America City." Businesses...
Title supplied by cataloger. Anchorage city street full of automobiles. Mount McKinley Apartments in distance. Banner reads, 'Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, Fun for All, All for Fun.' Chugach Mountains in background. Slide backwards. Original format:...
The O'Keefe collection contains photographs and slides taken primarily on Adak Island during World War II. Scenes include landscapes, persons, buildings, plants, animals and ships.
Grace O'Keefe made three trips to Alaska – as a Navy...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from caption. Photograph of the tennis team. Narrative in photo album reads: "At right our tennis team visiting at Quincy during a tournament. This team won the county high school championship. I did all coaching in the school. Lots...
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Winter road north from Eagle and Circle to the DEW line. Built by Alaska Freightline. LaTourneau trains, made for the desert, were not very successful here. Less paperwork makes for more fun in the...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. " Pete Haase's snow shoes; may I never see them again. Traveling on them with a heavy pack is no fun."
Title taken from creator's notes. Caption reads: Everyone enjoyed a fun day on the solid ice on the Chena riverbed in downtown Fairbanks. Notes and captions are from Cecil H. Kornegay 7-5-2000.
Title taken from caption. View of table set for celebration with coffee pot, candles, silverware, and cake in Anchorage, Alaska. Event is described by Beulah Marrs (later Beulah Marrs Parisi) as "one of a series of state night events designed to...
Men (some in uniform) standing behind table laid out with food and drink during "New York Night" held by USO at Community Hall in Anchorage, Alaska. From caption: "The food was excellent prepared by the chefs of the Railway Battalion [714th Railway...
John Jacobson, Martha Stowell, and two unidentified men unloading lumber from a trailer on a USO outing. From caption: "Fire Lake - the USO wanted to buy an old cabin on the lake and we spent several weekends on spring working hard to fix it up. ...
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] pages ; 16 cm.
A shaggy track meet which drew everyone in the vicinity. A great day of fun for onlookers as well as participants. Bea Kahl standing at the right. People are sitting on the steps of the teacherage. Title and description courtesy of Mrs. Keller.