Title taken from caption. Full caption reads: "Slim William International Trail Blazer. Alaska to Washington, D.C. 1933." Verso stamped: POSTCARD and contains handwritten text: "Bert Winder From Slim Williams." Slim Williams was a...
The George A. Llano Collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in...
Title from caption. Photograph of a woman standing on what may be a moose hide as she prepares it for smoking. Narrative from photo album reads: "Here is Mrs. Luke working on a moose skin. It has stood for days in a a stinking mess of rotten...
39 second, color/silent film clip of men making babiche (hide rope). First, a man rinses the hide in a barrel, then in a large body of water. Two men then stretch and cut the hide into strips.
Title taken from caption. "9291 -- The good ship "Queen," after passing the "Seminole," sped on to Skagway, discharged her freight and passengers and then returned to Portage Cove just as the reindeer ship was dropping anchor, on March 27th....
Title taken from caption. "9191 -- Bound for the Klondike Gold Fields, Chilkoot Pass, Alaska" Indexer's note: A long line of humans can be seen extended along the steep stretch of the Chilkoot Pass. A camp with stacks of supplies, pack...
Title taken from caption. "9324 -- (42) The pioneer white settler at Skagway located there in 1891, yet the first ship load of Yukon argonauts who landed on that beach in July, 1897, saw few signs of human habitations. Today four splendid...
Title taken from donor's caption. "Julia and George try a ride on 'Deacon' at McCarthy Creek. For the first time in dawned on me that I faced a real problem in getting my young wife and child out over a rough 190 mile trail, crossing several...
Title from accompanying material. The woman holds books in her left arm. Mountains stretch across the background at left; a flag flies above the ice in the background at right.
Title taken from caption. View of dogsled race contestants during Fur Rendezvous celebration in downtown Anchorage, Alaska. From verso: "Headquarters Alaskan Air Command, APO Seattle 98742, Office of Information Telephone 272-6111 or Elmendorf AFB...
Title taken from caption. A crewmember from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa climbs across a ladder toward a timber trestle and the dock in the deserted mining town of Latouche, site of the former Beatson mine of the Kennecott Copper...
Title taken from caption. Crewmembers from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tallapoosa walk down a road near Ptarmigan Creek, a tributary of Kenai Lake. From May's journal, dated June 7th: "There is a highway here [Ptarmigan Creek] which I am told goes...
Title taken from front. Monument to the pack animals that died during the Gold Rush of 1897-1898, located at Inspiration Point, along the White Pass and Yukon Railroad route, Southeast Alaska. Monument reads: "The dead are speaking. In memory of us...
Title taken from verso. Woman using pegs to stretch and dry seal skins at Point Hope, Alaska, location of Wien Alaska Airlines' Trail Blazer Tour, with whalebones on ground nearby. 1960-1966? Photographer: Frank Whaley. Original photograph size: 8...
Title from sleeve. View from a hilltop, looking down towards the center of Ketchikan. Children play at a playground in the foreground. A large multi-story building rises at left. Buildings stretch into the distance. 4 X 5 B&W negative.
Title supplied by cataloger. Man stands with arm around young boy. The two stand in front of a wood and metal structure, possibly a kennel being constructed? The grassy flats stretch out behind them.
Title supplied by cataloger. Doris sits at the top of a short ladder leading up to a tent on stilts. on stilts. Sign atop tent reads 'Mud,' and below, 'R/R.' A small table sits on the grass near the tent. The flats stretch out behind the tent....
Title from image caption Crowd, on bleachers by Yukon River, watches as men stretch out measuring tape; competitors stand by in shorts and singlets; S. S. LOTTA TALBOT is visible behind crowd; sign on hillside across river reads " Try the Ames...