Remainder of title: Thomas Riggs, Jr., Member Alaskan Engineering Commission, and C. W. Richie and H. J. Atwell, Acting Register and Receiver of the United States Land Office, at Fairbanks, Alaska.
Title taken from verso. Full verso reads: "Slim riding a bucking two-wheeler through the Alaska muskeg. May 1939." Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In...
Title from caption in album: "Aug 25 - Ram mountains as seen through the woods in front of camp". Photograph shows a range of mountains seen through trees in a forest.
Journal kept by Captain Edwin F. Glenn, commanding officer of the 1898 U.S. Army Expedition to Cook Inlet in southcentral Alaska. June 29-Oct. 23, 1898. [228] pages ; 23 cm. The main task of the expedition was to explore the country north of Cook...
Title taken from caption. View of a man walking through a stand of beach rye growing up through volcanic ash on Kodiak Island, Alaska, from Katmai eruptions. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1915.
Title taken from caption. View of a house and its front yard in Kodiak. The yard is covered in equisetum also known as horsetails. Robert F. Griggs wrote in his book The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes "Of all the native plants the the one which...
Lowell Creek running through early Seward, Alaska. Alaska Central Railway office is visible at far right and tents are in the trees at left. ca. 1905-1915. Original photograph size: 3 1/4" x 5 1/4".
Title taken from creator's notes. Notes read: "The main street (from right to left) that went through Ladd Field. (The hospital and headquarters to the right of this picture are not visible). The barracks and housing for civilian workers are...
Relief shown by hill shading. Cover title: Alaska: through scenic seas to the land of the midnight sun. Inset: [Grand Trunk Pacific railway line from Prince Rupert to Edmonton]. Text and photos on verso are promotional material for Grand Trunk...
Reindeer run through the chute of a corral. Photos UAF-1997-108-314 through UAF-1997-108-326 seem to be a series of photos depicting corralling of reindeer and/or reindeer herding.
Reindeer filing through the chute of a corral. Photos UAF-1997-108-314 through UAF-1997-108-326 seem to be a series of photos depicting corralling of reindeer and/or reindeer herding.
Title from verso: "1937 Breakup Looking up Cushman St From 4th Ave". A south-bound view. Several people are in the distance, walking through the middle of the flooded street.
The photograph shows a town, possibly Chatanika, surrounded by gentle hills and a small river running through it. A small boat of some sort is on the river with several people in it. A powerline is clearly visible.
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...