Caption: Commercial whale bone is suspended from the upper jaw bone of the whale instead of teeth this whale had #10,600 worth of bone - five men stood abreast between its jaws. The longest...
Title from cataloger's notes. Verso reads, "Walter Blue. Photographed in his office (U.S. Army Historian) at Ft. Wainwright, Als. Sept., 1974." Image shows an elderly man wearing a suit jacket and tie, seated in front of a set of...
Color photo of a person push poling a boat down the Yukon River. Postcard postmarked from Cordova, Alaska and addressed to Mr. L.J. Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. Written on verso, "Oct. 24, '09. Dear...
(2:30 min.) (03 of 08) 3. Outside [non-Alaskan] control Still thinks at time of interview that becoming a commonwealth would have been better. Sees a major problem with control in Washington instead of in the states, and the same thing for...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "McKinley Park Hotel. We didn't spend the night here, but instead sacked out at the train station."
Title taken from caption. " Man, women and child." Cataloguer's note: A full length studio portrait of a man, woman and a girl toddler. This could possibly be a portrait of a young family. All are dressed for the occasion, with particular...
Ian McRae talks about getting into climbing at a young age in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, deciding to stop playing soccer and go climbing in the High Sierras, learning to climb in the California mountains, his first trip to Alaska trying to climb...
Title taken from text.
Album caption: "Cut-in" pole at junction of Delta loop with main line. The telegraph line between Valdez and Fairbanks carries two wires. As Delta is about 2 1/2 miles off the main line it is necessary to 'loop'...
Title by cataloger. This appears to be an explorer examining the inside rim of an active volcano. There's a fog surrounding him where steam is rising. [Judging by the patches of white, he may instead be on a glacier or in the crevice of a...
Title taken from text.
Album caption: Camp of a light repair crew working near Richardson. Deserted cabins were sometimes used instead of pitching tents. From left side of picture to the right are George M. Woods, civilian lineman,...
Title from caption in album. A ravine spanned by a narrow bridge on trestles. The creek bed is rocky with shallow water. [Identified in ASL-P198-61 as being from the Richardson Highway, but may instead be the Alaska Railroad bridge over...
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.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from verso. Lieutenant A. W. Anderson, posed in uniform, Anchorage, Alaska. Also from verso: "Came to Anchorage in 1919 to prospect. Instead, he ventured to Tyonek & caught belugas. Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." n.d....
From verso: "The Aleuts used a light skin boat that greatly resembled the Eskimo kayak but was usually built to carry either two or three people instead of just one."