Title taken from front. View of musher and dog sled preparing to start in the Solomon Derby sled dog race, Nome, Alaska, with spectators lining the street. Also from front: "Start of [Scotty] Allan and Darling entry, Percy Blatchford, driver." From...
Title from caption. Photograph of a log cache in a field. Narrative in photo album reads: "Left. An Indian cache where fish, food and furs are kept safe from dogs and mice. Pieces of trim are nailed around posts so mice cannot climb into it."
(5:12 min.) (05 of 08) Repairs on the Alaska Run for the Alaska Steam Ship Captain Brastad; lost propeller at sea; Stitt, James -- chief engineer; secure the propeller; steam ship -- towed ship back to Seattle; repair -- cylinder head; stop the...
Title taken from stereograph. "246-(11530) -- Arctic City is near the Arctic Circle on a branch of the Yukon River. You would know by everything in this view that you are in a cold climate. In the background are the snow-covered mountains with...
Title taken from caption. "9284 -- (21) The scene represented in this view impresses us with the fact that the army of argonauts over the Dyea Trail not only proceeded on foot but also personally transported their camp equipage and supplies. A...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "A pickup immersed by the waters off the point of Nyman's Peninsula aboard the Naval Station, Kodiak, forced two seamen, William D. Maule of Canoga Park, Calif., and Bruce Reid of Selah,...
View across an unpaved street of a wooden two story commercial building in Fairbanks, Alaska. A boardwalk runs in front of the building. Signs on the street level of the building read (left to right): "Fairbanks Banking Co. Safe deposit vaults" and...
Title taken from caption. Men on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ariadne wait in the "lee of Ananolak Island" (i.e. Anangula Island or Ananiuliak Island) for safe passage to Nikolski. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian...
First volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. June 18-Nov. 12, 1915. [143] pages ; 16 cm.
Fourth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. May 19, 1917-Jan. 2, 1918. [199] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from front. Young boy standing in front of a vegetable stand, holding sign, Seward, Alaska. Sign reads: "Raised in Seward Alaska." From verso: "A wee sample of Sewards [sic] food stuff - and I'm safe in saying Anchorage has her backed...
Title taken from front of bottom photo. Two photos of gold bars, Nome, Alaska. Bottom photo includes sacks of gold coins and buckets of ore. From front of top photo: "Alaska Banking and Safe Deposit Co., $1,000,000. Part of spring clean up, Nome,...
Supplemental materials: Practically the same picture as the second from the right in the Panoramic. Taken in the winter. Showing the snow about the same cabin safe frozen & snowed under.