The highly anticipated "Vital Signs" television series launches on Alaska One and KUAC-TV. Alaska has been a leader in delivering high quality health care to its citizen, especially in rural and remote locations. Alaska's health professionals...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Moving down from the 11,000ft camp. No rest for the weary. Some climbers will go from the 12,000ft camp all the way down to McGonagall Pass at 5720ft. without stopping for...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "We stopped for sleep after getting through the Lower Icefall. This is the view from Pete Haase's sleeping bag looking down the Muldrow Glacier."
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod. Three dogs sleep chained to posts next to metal boat and derelict building. More buildings in background. Original format: 35mm color slide
Caption: Just back of the village, on the side of Cape Mountain there are hundreds of pre-historic pits made of hewn granite stones. These pits are six feet long four wide and four deep. The stone facing the sea...
Title by cataloger. Photograph of Maggie and two of her brothers, Arthur and Lee. Another boy is visible behind them and a person can be seen on the top of a building that is being constructed in the background. Narrative in the album...
These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title from caption. Photograph of Sam the cat on the Rivenburg's roof in Rampart. Narrative in photo album reads: "Picture on the roof of the back entrance to our kitchen in Rampart. Sam lived on whole raw rabbits which I shot with a '22'...
Title taken from caption. "11555 -- (6) Judging from his suit and hood of fur and his team of dogs, we might mistake the boy in this picture for an Esquimau.
In 1898, at the time of the great rush for gold, he was the only white boy on...
Almer J. Peterson standing next to wash tub and washboard doing laundry in Palmer (known earlier as Warton), Alaska, with buildings in background. Buildings are at Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corporation's Matanuska Valley Colony. From verso:...
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.
Fifth volume of five volume set of diaries kept by Walter Todd, railroad surveyor for Alaskan Engineering Commission in southcentral Alaska. Jan. 1-Sept. 5, 1918. [191] pages ; 15 cm.
Title taken from verso. Two whale hunters watch for whales while the rest of the hunters sleep in a tent, near Barrow, Alaska. Also from verso: "Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society. 8 miles out of Pt. Barrow. 1921." 1921. Photographer: Arthur...
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod Trail and Race. Dogs sleep in snow. Joe kneels nearby. Harnesses hung in trees, and loaded sled parked in background. Houses can be seen in the distance through the trees. School children cut spruce boughs to...
Title supplied by cataloger. Iditarod Race. Dogs sleep in snow. Dog sled partially unloaded and supplies scattered in snow. Trees and mountains in distance. Slide labeled, 'Finger Lake Checkpoint 76, Joe Redington Sr.' Slide printed 4/1976....
People read, sleep, and relax along dock on sunny day; color photograph shows blue sky; Alaska Coastal Airlines hanger and float planes in view at left