Sheldon and Lorena Turner -- Alaskan Survey Expedition Collection contains forty photographs and 1 report relating to the 1932 Alaskan Aerial Survey Expedition. The report, "The Land of the Williwaw," was written by Lieutenant R. H. Harrell,...
Title taken from caption. "View showing the roadbed of the Government Railroad near Palmer in the Matanuska Valley. Between Matanuska and Palmer the land is flat and practically all of it has been settled upon by homesteaders. Many...
Title taken from back of photo and accompanying note. "The wife of a Coast Guardsman left this car for higher ground after leaving her husband aboard the Coast Guard Cutter BITTERSWEET (WAGL-389) on Nyman's Peninsula. The car literally floated...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Damaged Turnagain area Anchorage Ak., following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64". A house and a car are tipping on the settled ground. Broken pieces of a wooden fence are laid across the gaps in the earth...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Damaged Turnagain area Anchorage Ak., following the Alaska Earthquake 3/28/64". Several houses have tipped or fallen into the settled ground. Knik Arm is in the background.
Title from caption. Photograph of tripod telegraph poles across a lake. Caption reads: Tripods made of 25 ft poles across small lake five feet in depth near 85. Built on the ice and settled as ice melted in spring. But little aligning found...
Title from collection notes. White two-story building, trees, and a sign (with dogwood emblem on bottom) that reads: "Ashcroft Manor. In 1862 C.F. and H.P. Cornwall settled here and developed Ashcroft Manor. The ranch, with its grist and saw...
Title taken from caption: "Esquimo with sailboat in Herendeen Bay. He is one of the known Esquimos [sic] whom the U.S. Government has settled Herendeen Bay. Note his sealskin coat." View of man standing at the till of his boat wearing a seal skin...
Title taken from caption. Myron Myrick sleeps in chair while Beulah Marrs (later Beulah Marrs Parisi) and Arthur Rich look on in Anchorage, Alaska. Photograph was used in Anchorage Daily Times article published Nov. 3, 1943 entitled "USO Friday...
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.
Second volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Nov. 22, 1915-Jan. 14, 1917. [166] 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. View of building and WAMCATS (Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System) telegraph tower at Fort Gibbon, Alaska. Handwritten inscription on verso reads: "Dear Ann & family, We leave today for San Francisco. Love...
Portrait of Captain Bernard, sitting at desk with pen and paper Accompanying biographical information: sailed schooner, TEDDY BEAR, along the northern coast; later settled in Cordova and became the harbor master