Wilma Knox looks at a few playing cards and an empty cigar box left on a table in the recreation hall in the abandoned copper mining town of Kennicott, Alaska. From caption: "In the huge recreation hall where the miners went to play cards in the...
View of the exterior of the Red Cross Recreation Center and Library in Kodiak. Sign on building reads "Red Cross Recreation Center". A church is visible on the hill behind. Original photograph size: 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch.
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...
Group portrait of three servicemen standing outside a Post Service Club. Sign on building reads "Post Service Club". From album caption [left to right]: "Mill Bill John. May 44." From verso: "May '44. Bill Hern, John Foley, & I." Original...
Title from verso. An unidentified service man sits on a wall in front of the entrance to the U.S.O. (United Service Organizations) building in Fairbanks. A sign on the building reads "USO" the sign on the building next door reads "Johnsons...
Winter view of the large log building that housed the USO Club, SW corner of 5th Avenue and G Street, Anchorage. A car is parked outside the building. Verso: "This is the USO--taken with Andy's box camera." Original photograph size: 2 7/8 x 4 1/2...
View of the USO (United Service Organizations) building, Anchorage, Alaska, with a cache in front. 1946. Photographer: Hewitt's Photo Shop. Original photograph size: 4" x 5".
Title taken from caption. View of snow covered entrance to the recreation hall in Curry, Alaska. Photograph taken Feb. 22, 1952. Photograph type: 35 mm color slide.
Wilma Knox walks down a street in the ghost town of McCarthy, Alaska. From caption: "Bob caught me from behind as I strolled down past what must have been some kind of recreation hall. We looked in the window and there were seats inside and a large...
Title taken from verso. View of men bowling in recreation hall at Goodnews Bay Mining Company, Goodnews Bay, Alaska, with drawing on wall at right and spectators in background. Photo negative number 1450-90-19-V." 1950's? Photographer: Ward W....
Title taken from front of photo H125. Panoramic view of Alaska Engineering Commission railroad terminal yards in Anchorage, Alaska, with Government Hill and Alaska Engineering cottages in right background and Knik Arm in left background. Buildings...
Title taken from front. Ladies playing tennis in front of Methodist (now Lutheran) parsonage in Seward, Alaska. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Women playing tennis in Seward, Alaska. House with flag in background, along with other buildings. 1911-1914. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph: 5 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Large crowd watches a baseball game with crewmembers of the U.S.C. Maryland playing against locals in Seward, Alaska. From front: "Baseball game, Seward & Cruiser Maryland. S. Sexton." 1913. Photographer: Sylvia Sexton. Original size of photograph:...
Toddler hugging her doll at the Jesse Lee Home, Seward, Alaska. From verso: Carrie Ida Pierce Seward, Alaska, Box 516. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".
Two toddlers ride piggyback on a girl and a boy at the Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska. From verso: "Carrie Ida Pierce Seward, Alaska, Box 516." 1946-1955. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 3 1/2".