Title hand-written on slide. This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk circa 1945 and depict potato fields and a barn and other farm buildings near Palmer, Alaska.
Title from caption. Photograph of a parade float showing a baked potato; float presented by the Northern Pacific Railway. Also visible is a Masonic Lodge symbol. Narrative in photo ablum read: "Float depicting Idaho big baked potato in parade...
Title taken from caption. View of two men putting kelp into a potato garden. Caption also says: "Native fertilizing potato garden at Kodiak. From time immemorial the natives have applied the ribbon kelp, Alaria fistulosa, as fertilizer to their...
Title taken from caption. View of a man next to a boat full of kelp on the beach at Kodiak Island, Alaska. Caption also says: "Andrean Yagashoff, member of 1919 expedition, bringing in kelp for potato patches, Kodiak." Caption of photo number...
Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "Peter, a native with a boat load of kelp at Potato Patch Beach. The kelp is to put on the potato patches as fertilizer." Based on other photos in the series this photo was most likely taken on Kodiak...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title taken from caption. "A homestead near Palmer, on the Matanuska Branch of the Government Railroad. The many sacks noted in the distance contain the harvested potato crop. The oats in the foreground have been partly cut. The farmers in...
Title taken from caption. View of a fenced in native potato patch. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915. Photographer: Robert F. Griggs.
Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "Piles of kelp (Alaria fistulosa) ready to be spaded into native potato gardens, Kodiak." Caption of photo number UAA-hmc-0186-volume7-6018 reads: "... From time immemorial the natives have applied the...
Title taken from caption. View of the top of a native potato cellar near Kodiak, Alaska. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from front. View of potato farm in Matanuska Valley along Matanuska Branch, Alaska Engineering Commission Railway, near Palmer, Alaska. Also from front: "G789. A.E.C. Anchorage." An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's...
Title taken from front. A man and woman standing in the Pioneer Hotel's potato field, Knik, Alaska. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." n.d. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".