View of Alaska Department of Highways sign for Wrangell Mountains in Southcentral Alaska. Sign reads: "Alaska Department of Highways. Wrangell Mountains. The mountains as viewed to the east are, left to right: Mt. Sanford, 16,210 feet, 52 miles...
Descriptive Narrative: 1 certificate attesting the giving of a Christina name to Naushket, a Sitka chief. Bears red seal which is disintegrated. Descriptive Narrative: A Russian certificate presented to a Tlingit leader of Sitka,...
View of some of the burned out buildings from the Big Fire in Nome, 13 Sept. 1905. Fresh milled lumber is visible for the rebuilding and one structure is already going up. The name Goetze appears in the bottom right of the photograph and may be...
Title from sleeve. Location identified in 2012 as Juneau. Floatplanes sit on floating docks in Ketchikan. Men in coveralls look at the engine of one airplane while two men in suits wait nearby. Airplane painted with name 'Alaska Coastal Ellis...
Title from name on side of plane Pin-up-girl decal appears above name of plane Note: According to Dave Stern, the aircraft may possibly be one of two Boeing B-29As, of the 509th Bomb Squadron, stationed in Alaska and modified as alternate...
1954 Roll 1.Title taken from accompanying inventory. Tlingit Indian name first reported in 1849 by Captain Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkof, Imperial Russian Navy (IRN), governor of Russian America (1852, map 7) as Reka Akve or Akve River and since...
Tlingit carver James Rudolph, of Juneau, seated among a group of totems of varying sizes. Verso: l to r: Mary (wife - of the Eagle Tribe - Shun-goo-Kay-dee Thunderbird), baby, Anna, daughter Martha, Mr. Rudolph, and daughter Elisa. Mr. Rudolph is...
Title taken from verso. Group portrait with several women and children. Two log buildings in background; one of them under construction. Orth, Dictionary of Alaska place names: "This is a common Eskimo name, meaning 'people of the stream's...
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Verso: Virginia Jaunita Gregg maiden name. Virginia Lowney married name. First white child born at the top of the earth Point Barrow Alaska 1919. Died Feb. 11, 1953. To Governor William A. Egan from her son Walter G. Lowney, 1966.
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...