These photographs were taken between 1899 and 1911 and depict life in the region around Forts Gibbon and Egbert. Included are hunting parties, military personnel, camp buildings, scenery, dog sledding and skiing. Steamships are shown loading wood...
Title taken from caption. View of four members of the National Geographic expedition on the floor of Katmai Valley, Alaska. Two of the members of the expedition are preparing a meal by using the geothermal heat of Fumarole 5. Photo taken in what...
Title taken from verso. Close up photograph of two older Inupiat women eating muktuk. The woman on the left is in a fur trimmed parka. Verso: "Muktuk Eating Contest (Seal or whale blubber after a sort of pickling process - the pink is the blubber -...
Title taken from caption. Jasper D. Sayre and Paul R. Hagelbarger, two members of the National Geographic Society Expedition to the Katmai area, cook over a campfire at the expedition camp in what was later designated as Katmai National Park and...
Title taken from verso. View of Karl Eid making ornamental chocolates at Piggly Wiggly Market in Spenard area of Anchorage, Alaska, with merchandise on display in background. Sign on shelf in background reads: "Try Pixie potato chips. 77 [cents]."...
Title supplied by cataloger. Two small portable stoves outside. Larger stove has frying pan cooking meat. Small stove not being used. Mug full of hot chocolate with marshmallows sits near stoves. Original format: 35mm color slide
Title supplied by cataloger. Coleman stove cooking a vat of what is likely food for dogs. Outdoor scene. Slide carousel labeled, 'Old Pictures Misc.' Original format: 35mm color slide
Four Yupik women and a child are sitting on the ground with some pots and pans possibly preparing food or hot drink. The boots, the outfit of the baby, and the equipment they have, indicate that these women are either Yupik...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a man cooking on a small wood stove inside of a cabin. There are a few pots and a frying pan on the stove. The man is wearing a gun in a holster on his hip. Caption from finding aid reads "Lyman...
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 verso. Photograph of sailors on the beach around a stove, cooking a meal. A ski is upright in the left foreground. Verso reads with gaps in narrative due to missing text (gaps and indexer inferences in brackets). "A warm fire...
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. "Porcupine River - Men at Shuman House about 1937. (L-R): McCauley, W.C. Curtis of Howling Dog, Pete Simple, Joe Netro and Harry Healy, Old Crow Yukon Territory, Rube Mason and Frank Foster, Fishing Branch Yukon...