30 second excerpt shows the roadhouse built, owned and operated by Italian immigrant Maurice Morino (1870-1937) at McKinley Park (later called Denali National Park and Preserve); the backside of the entrance sign to McKinley Park; the McKinley Park...
91 second, black & white/silent, film clip of traveling along the Richardson Highway. Included are scenes of a stagecoach, an unidentified community, an airplane, a river, mountains and a glacier. Roadhouses or other buildings bear large signs with...
Title taken from caption on Album. "Mr. McClusky at his Richardson Road house." The McClusky Roadhouse was one of three early roadhouses in the town of Richardson which was a mining community located along the bank of the Tanana River.
From verso: "Copper Center, Alaska. Copper Center Roadhouse. 102 miles north of Valdez on the Richardson Highway. On this historic site, "Blix's Roadhouse" served the gold seekers during the Gold Rush 1897-1898. There has been a roadhouse here...
Four men described as campainers pose in front of a bookcase at Melville's Roadhouse, September 1954. E. L. Bob Bartlett appears to be the man sitting on right.
A main log building sits on the left side of a gravel road with two small log buildings to the right. Sky filled with big clouds, with no snow on ground. Appears to be summer or autumn.
A main log building sits on the left side of a gravel road with two small log buildings to the right. Cloudy skies, with no snow on ground. Appears to be summer or autumn.
Front angled view of large building having four dormers and arched roof is shown with vehicles parked in front, including a bus from Oharra Bus Lines, and smaller buildings to the right. Sign in image: Gulkana.
Front, exterior vew of a log building with a woman at the doorway, and a man to her left. Young boy seen inside, sitting at the window. Sign in image: Eureka Roadhouse. Meals. Lunches. Gas-Oil.
Front view of Copper Center Roadhouse with two cars parked outside and smaller buildings located to the left. Large sign in image: Copper Center. Photo shows four dormers, two in front and two on the side of the...
Title from verso. Slim Williams was a musher, trapper, mail carrier, and adventurer who came to Alaska during the Klondyke Gold Rush. In 1933, Williams made a well-publicized mushing trip from Fairbanks, Alaska to Washington D.C. to prove the...
The George King Collection describes in photographs and manuscript material early aviation in Alaska. There are two series in this collection. The first series consists of five photograph albums and two folders of loose photographs. The second...
Herbert Heller was an avid collector of historical material on Alaska, with emphasis on the gold-seeking pioneers of 1898. Among these pioneers was his uncle, (Robert) Lynn Smith, a gold miner, jeweler and U.S. Marshal in Alaska. Smith’s career...
Title from indexer. Photograph shows loaded up sleds being pulled by horses and pack mules. A few men are standing near them. They appear to be at a roadhouse with a sign on it that reads "The Dam" and another sign in front reading "Beaver...
Title from caption. Photograph shows some sleds with boxes tied onto them outside of McDevitt's Road House. The sleds are lightly covered in frost or snow.