View of group of men sitting on log at road camp where Almer J. Peterson stayed in Palmer, Alaska, with tents and building in background. From verso: "May, Palmer, Alaska (193-). Road camp where I staid [sic] for 8 days." From caption: "Road camp...
See the numbers on the photo: 1. Tishu (Stokes) Ulen; 2. Nellie McNeal "Little Nellie ... she stayed for the summer with us." 3. Jay ?; 4. Madame Melbourne; 5. Mrs. Brown; 6....
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'...
(4:01 min.) (01 of 27) Family history: Grandfather
Grandfather from Virginia, fought for Union, was a soldier at Sitka during the signing in 1868. Father stayed and married a Creole, part Aleut. Got a Job with the A. C. Co. Grandfather...
(5:38 min.) (04 of 27) Early work history
Left Cordova to go to school at Alaska School of Mines and Agriculture (UAF). Took civil engineering courses. By the time he had graduated, the railroads had shut down and there were only jobs in...
(4:04 min) (08 of 19) Trip to Alaska #2 Roads difficult. Gas expensive in Yellowstone Park. Flags were at half-mast when they made it out of the park and found out that Harding had died. Checked the Model T in at the Alaska Steamship...
(4:46 min.) (11 of 28) 11. Back to the U.S.
Military wanted them to stay and offered George a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant. He wanted to get back home for at least a visit, so he flew back with a cargo of latex rubber. Engine problems...
(3:28 min.) (13 of 28) 13. Whitehorse and Fairbanks
George stayed awhile in Seattle and saw Boeing in full wartime production. Eighteen to twenty B-17's a day were produced. He went to Whitehorse, YT. Bill Lavery was a pilot for Morrison...
(4:18 min.) (14 of 28) 14. Pacific Alaska Airways
Joe Barrows set up this airline; he wanted Pan Am to take it over for him. He wanted to fly clipper flying boats. His wife stayed in Alaska and was the first woman (Mary Barrows) to get...
09 Flew that summer (1946) (4:15 min,) (09 of 09)
Got married soon thereafter, husband owned a trading post in McGrath. Had a son and then husband got sick and died; left her with a child and a trading post to run. Stayed in McGrath until 1953.
Title from cataloger notes. Full note reads: "University bus line driver Sidney Wilson in front of British/Yukon navigation bus at Dry Creek, Yukon, where we stayed overnight and exchanged passengers."
Title taken from back of stereograph. "The story of Peary's attempts to discover the North Pole is a tale of heroism. For twenty years he struggled before he finally succeeded. He made his first trip to Greenland in 1886 when he was a young...
Title taken from caption on Album. "Fern Reese and two flu orphans."
Identified as Fern Rose, not Reese, by Trish Schmidt, in e-mail of 16 March 2009: "She came to Alaska with her sister Myrtle Rose to work with the missionaries. She...
Title taken from accompanying note. "Old R.R. bldg. In McCarthy. Stayed here in 1963. Now a museum & gallery. 8/84." A sizable puddle stands in the way of the front of the old railroad building. At left, the sign reads: "Art gallery museum."
Title taken from caption. View of the dirt covered roof of a cabin. Caption also says: "Cabin belonging to Mr. Grant in which we stayed one night. This cabin is located in the portage between Naknek and Iliuk (Brooks) Lakes." Photo taken in what...
Title taken from caption. View of the Russian mission house and the Russian Orthodox Church at Kodiak, Alaska. The National Geographic expedition members stayed at the mission house while in Kodiak. The Russian Orthodox Church at Kodiak was founded...
Title handwritten on slide. This color slide was taken by Charlotte E. Mauk on Thursday, June 8, 1961 and depicts her campsite on Lobo Lake, where she stayed with naturalists Olaus John Murie (1889-1963) and his wife, Margaret "Mardy" E. Murie...