Men and women seated in and standing in front of car advertising New Method Cleaners, near railroad crossing, Matanuska Valley, Alaska. Advertisement reads: "New Method Cleaners. Cleaning, pressing, repairing. Phone 295." From verso: "Taken at...
Title taken from front. Panoramic view looking east along Fourth Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, with horse drawn wagons and automobiles in distance. Businesses shown include New Method Cleaners, Empress Theatre, Pioneer Steam Laundry, and Mrs. T. D....
Title taken from front. View of sidewalk construction and buildings on 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, looking east. Businesses shown include California Pool Room, Pioneer Steam Laundry, J. H. Smith Real Estate, New Method Dry Cleaners, Billy Butts...
Title supplied by cataloger. Street view of Fourth Avenue in Anchorage. Cars on street and along curbs. Signs for New Method Cleaners, Northern Commercial Co., and First National Bank visible. A large cloud looms over the mountains. June, 1945. 4x5...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of two men whipsawing lumber. Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are two views showing the Indians whip-sawing limber. By this laborious method they produce planks for flooring, boards for building the large...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of two men whipsawing a log into lumber. Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are two views showing the Indians whip-sawing limber. By this laborious method they produce planks for flooring, boards for building...
Title taken from caption. "11560 -- (38) The Klondike district, as well as other camps in the interior of Alaska, has a method of placer mining different from that which prevails in other sections of the United States. The ground, which is...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: A close-up shot of miners at work. A miner seen here is pouring water in the sluice box; a basic method used to separate (by washing out) dirt from gold. As noted on the photograph, this image is...
Boxing match, with Joe E. Brown as master of ceremonies, sponsored by the USO on Fort Richardson, to entertain World War II troops in Alaska. Anchorage merchants sponsoring the event included Carlquist Jewelry, Eckmann's Furniture, Nellie's Diner,...
Title taken from verso. Horse looking out of tent-barn along Valdez-Fairbanks Trail, Alaska. Also from verso: "The trail horse 'barn' ('stable'). The method was to dig snow down to ground before putting up tents for the barn. House tents were...
Title supplied by cataloger. Blazes, or marks cut into trees, were an early method of marking a trail. Slide box labeled, 'Marking Iditarod Trail.' Original format: 35mm color slide
Small school, approximately 12 miles from Petersburg, with one schoolroom below and teacher's living quarters above; in 1931, 16 students were enrolled. According to the teacher's report in the Historical Record, "The community is composed of eight...
Woman demonstrates butchering method or skins a reindeer while others watch. Bag on ground behind her may be made from a whole sealskin (poke). Caribou meat was stored in sealskin pokes. Person in foreground at left is wearing a squirrel skin...