Title taken from caption. View of a member of the National Geographic Society expedition standing in a tree looking down at horsetail (equisetum) growing up through the hollow trunk. The trees have been sandblasted by the ash blowing in the wind,...
Title taken from label on front. Winter view of twelve horses pulling dinkey (small locomotive used in railroad yards and in construction) to Alaska Engineering Commission railroad construction site at Riley Creek, Alaska, with men standing by....
Photograph of Alaskan women with the attached caption: A dozen Alaskan Beauties: Twelve of the 15 candidates for Fairbanks Winter Carnival queen gathered January 14, 1958, at Travelers Inn for this group photograph. Around the outside, from lower...
Title from cataloger. Photograph of the Sternwheeler Whitehorse from homeport of Victoria, BC, Canada. Narrative in album states: "This steamboat, the 'White Horse,' carried us from White Horse, Yukon Territory, to Dawson City on the upper...
Title from caption. Photograph of a children's lawn party with Bennie, Edith and Francis and their mother, Mrs. Moore, identified. Caption reads:>"Birthday Party at extreme left marked with X -- my daughter Frances, near centre my daughter...
Most of the collection consists of photographs of person, mountains, equipment, and aircraft used in the expedition to recover bodies from the C-A1 of the ATC which crashed in the Mount McKinley region, circa 1944.
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Title taken from caption. "11560 -- (38) The Klondike district, as well as other camps in the interior of Alaska, has a method of placer mining different from that which prevails in other sections of the United States. The ground, which is...
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Clipping from a publication with the caption: The water wagon is a literal fact in Alaska. In many of the camps it is very hard to obtain good drinking water owing to the fact that wells are difficult to dig or drive...
Title taken from donor's caption. "1905, looking up Lakina River from 4 miles below our camp, Blackburn Mountains in distance". "There would be no possibililty of communication with the outside world for two months. We were as completely...
Title taken from text. Photograph of two horses and men on a bridge with a camp in the background with the following caption: Signal Corps bridge across a long narrow lake at 85 1/2. Twelve feet from top of cap on bent to botom of mud sill. ...