Title from accompanying notes. "Camp 2. Accident at rest stop just below Camp 2. The accident was actually a snow covered crevasse. Pepi, Shige, and Nobu were at the rest stop when the snow bridge collapsed, sending them into the crevasse....
Title from accompanying notes. "18 April. West and Pete at rest stop between Camps 1 and 2." There are 3 men in red parkas on a break from their hike on a mountain trail. One appears to be starting a cigarette (left), another is holding a...
Title from accompanying notes. "Rest stop between Camps 1 and 2. It is here where we changed from skis to crampons on each trip between Camps 1 and 2." Several men climbing a trail. They have left their skis, poles and backpack with a...
Title from accompanying notes. "Approaching Camp 2, which was not very far above the rest stop. Climbers in the distance are carrying loads beyond Camp 2." Snow, mountains, and several mountain climbers and a camp in the distance.
View of crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa preparing for a fishing trip to Lake Kenai. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "On Sunday twenty five of the seamen and three officers hired a truck to take them to Lake Kenai for a...
Title taken from label on matting. View of Curry Hotel in Curry, Alaska, overnight stop on Alaska Railroad between Anchorage and Fairbanks, with railroad tracks running across in front of building. Also from label: "(Temp. 18)." Photographer's...
8x10 photo. Title from caption. Full caption reads:
"Ralph and Ida Savory in the cockpit of a Boeing 707-320 just prior to Take-Off non stop London to Seattle, October 13, 1969. This was the final flight for Pan Am, mandatory...
The O'Keefe collection contains photographs and slides taken primarily on Adak Island during World War II. Scenes include landscapes, persons, buildings, plants, animals and ships.
Grace O'Keefe made three trips to Alaska – as a Navy...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman called Old Eliza with a log cabin in the background. Narrative in photo album reads: "Here are two pictures of our famous 'Old Eliza.' She was our first caller, early on the first morning, before...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of Old Eliza walking in Stevens Village with a log building in the background. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here are two pictures of our famous 'Old Eliza.' She was our first caller, early on the first...
Title from caption. Appears to be a photograph of a map. The map shows the route that Joe Crosson flew from Fairbanks, to Wiseman, to Point Barrow, to Cape Sabine, to Cape Thompson, to Kotzebue, to Noorvik, to Ruby, and then back to Fairbanks....
(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...
(5:18 min) (17 of 27) Haul Road II
Bids to build from Yukon River north were too high so Juneau said go ahead and finish it. The crew got more equipment and people and fuel. The temperature dropped to -70 degrees. Juneau kept asking --...
(5:25 min.) (07 of 28) 7. Across the Atlantic Georgetown, French Guyana was the next stop, not Africa. The ship was zigzagging; the Captain and First Mate would open orders each day and set a new course. On board was a Pan Am navigator;...