Amason, Alvin (artist). Audio, 2:36 minutes MP3 format. Alvin Amason talks about how he named his painting "Oscar Scared Him with His Icon" at a UA Museum of the North Geist lecture
May 9, 1903 THE FAIRBANKS MINER Fairbanks, Alaska 26 26.May 1903 Vol. 1. No. 1. James Wickersham Editor ORIGINAL of THE FAIRBANKS MINER Written by James Wickersham and typed by Geo. Jeffery at Fairbanks in May, 1903 & sold by Jeffery and Stevens...
Title from caption. Photograph of Dutch Harbor. Verso reads: "Here's how Dutch Harbor looked before Uncle Sam's crews began vital bases for defense of Alaska and environs. Jap [ Japanese ] bombers unleashed a retaliatory bombing raid on...
Title from indexer. Postcard back of the SS Portland. Narrative reads: "Cordova Alaska November 24-10, Dear Nina This is the Portland as she looked just before I left Katalla -- Will
Postcard postmarked from Kokrines on Nov. 14, 1911 and addressed to Mrs. Alice Clemons, Ridgeway, Texas, Hopkins Co. [County]. Written on the verso is, "Dear Mother, your long looked for and very welcome letter of Sept....
"Possible only in a democratic Army such as ours -- Officers and men in a friendly group--Capt. Douglass; Lieut. C.H. Crumrine; Lieut. Ross C. Kirkpatrick; Lieut. Eric C. Nelson; Sergeant Albert Vierra, Master...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
"Title taken from caption. "9256 -- (14) There were a goodly number of robust young fellows who undertook this journey to and through the valley of the Yukon in search of the royal metal fully prepared to overcome all difficulties and to get...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "The Lower Icefall was Hell. Looked like God had picked up the whole glacier and tossed it into the air, letting pieces fall where they may. Going up was 2 hour trip; coming...
Title taken from caption. The following letter was written on the back of this photograph. "My dear Louise! Many thanks for your letter. Here is the way the college looked just before the snow came. The west wing, power plant and dormitory were...
Wilma Knox looks at a few playing cards and an empty cigar box left on a table in the recreation hall in the abandoned copper mining town of Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "In the huge recreation hall where the miners went to play cards in the...
Wilma Knox walks down a street in the ghost town of McCarthy, Alaska. From caption: "Bob caught me from behind as I strolled down past what must have been some kind of recreation hall. We looked in the window and there were seats inside and a large...
Almer J. Peterson sitting on rock at Little Susitna River in southcentral Alaska. From verso: "Sept 22, 1936. I looked gazing into space in the Little Susitina [sic] River."
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
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.
Third volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 15, 1917-May 18, 1917. [97] pages ; 15 cm.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 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.