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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A judge watches closely as two women arm-wrestle in a roped off ring. Further information was supplied by Flora Demoski during the Denakkanaaga Elder and Youth Conference, held June 6-10, 2005, in Grayling, Alaska: Shirley Dick [top-left of...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a man holding the end of a rope attached to a moose. They are standing in snow. Caption from finding aid reads "Rope on moose". Location is unknown.
Title from indexer. Collection of photographs related to the duel between Soapy Smith and Frank Reid, and the running out of town of Soapy Smith's gang. Many of the photographs appear to be from Case & Draper. Caption reads: The tragedy...
Title by indexer. People hold a rope leading down to the ocean; it is possible they are helping to unload a ship and land the cargo. A large cut timber is lying on the beach. Possibly this is the timber referred to in photograph...
Title from accompanying notes. A man attached to a rope on his way out of a crevasse. A pick axe and rope lie below him on the snow and ice that had collapsed.
Title from accompanying notes. One man in climbing gear is taking a photograph of another climber who is next in line on the safety rope. Their equipment includes carabiners, backpacks, pick axes, cameras, rope, goggles and harnesses.
Title from taken caption. View of three soldiers during U.S. Army mountain and glacier training in Alaska. One of the soldiers is keeping the rope taunt while another repels down the cliff with the third man on his back. From verso: "Keeping the...
Title from taken caption. View of a group of soldiers during U.S. Army mountain and glacier training in Alaska. One of the soldiers is crossing a river on a rope, while the rest stand and watch. From verso: "One rope bridge for crossing river....
Looking down at a woman on skis holding onto a rope tow next to a ski jump, probably at Ship Creek, Anchorage. Original photograph size: 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inch.
Title taken from caption. Two men and a dog cross the Chatanika River in Alaska. The man at the front is pulling the craft along a rope stretched across the river. From verso: "Tom [Strobie], George [Moore], and 'Big Boy' cross the Chatanika River...
This color slide depicts two unidentified Alaska Native men after a walrus hunt near either Kotzebue or Barrow in 1962. There are two bodies lying on a beach in front of the ocean. One man crouches by one of the walruses with a cigarette in his...
View of two men using a rope to climb up from Valdez Glacier, Southcentral Alaska. From verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society." n.d. Original photograph size: 5 1/4" x 4 1/4".
Title from image Man wearing a white shirt holds onto one end of rope; a light-colored reindeer on the other end of rope grazes on grasses Photographer's number 968
Title from verso Members of Company B, 1st Battle Group, 3rd Infantry, cross rope suspension bridge during mountain training in the Eklutna Glacier area [one soldier shown, crossing rope bridge over river] Signal Corps Photo 586103 (Sp4...
Title from accompanying notes. "20 April. Shige at Camp 1." Mountain climber stopped to pose for the camera on the trail, there are six other men on the trail in front of him. He is tethered with rope and has sunglasses, quilted mittens, and...