Title taken from front. View of school children marching in Decoration Day (later called Memorial Day) parade on 4th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska. Businesses shown include Anchorage Trading & Fur Co. and Rapid Transfer Co. Also from front: "A.E.C....
Title taken from front. View of parade on 4th Avenue for Decoration Day (later called Memorial Day), Anchorage, Alaska, with men carrying flags and spectators lining the street. Businesses shown include Anchorage Trading & Fur Co. and Rapid...
In Winter and Pond Company's photograph album THE TRAIL OF '98 Full album caption: "Day after day they came ready to face the great adventure on the Trail of '98." Steamboat RAPID TRANSIT unloading passengers and gear
Photograph label reads: "Mr. Fredrick D. Browne a man of long experience in railroad construction was then placed in charge and from the time of his taking charge work was very rapid and great strides were made - he taking...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from caption. "9198 -- (22) The city of 'Sheep Camp' was the metropolis of the Dyea trail. Those who have never visited a booming frontier mining camp will find it difficult to appreciate the rapidity with which such camps acquire a...
Title from caption in album. Rapid flowing river with trees and boulders alongside. [Probably Lucky Shot Trail is what is today Lucky Shot Mine Rd, in the valley northwest of Bullion Mountain.]
View of three graves and their headstones in Valdez, Alaska cemetery. The headstones read: "Riley Miller. Of Rapid City, S. Da. Died Oct. 21st 1899 Aged 52 Yrs," "Mollie," and "Thos. D. Cashin. Died February 3, 1899. Aged, 57 yrs, 1 mo., 7 dys."...
Title from image. Faded view of a glacier. Glacier's name given in 1890 due to its rapid melting. It receded more than 1000 yards between 1886 and 1890. It has now entirely disappeared. Photographer's number 235.