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...
The entire collection contains reports, correspondence, pamphlets, and administrative records received from the agricultural stations at Matanuska, Fairbanks, and Petersburg. The papers address such topics as environmental data, Alaskan flora,...
Title taken from collection notes. "Floating down the Upper Tanana. May 17, 1919". A man, standing, pushes with an oar; a dog and a child in a hat are seated.
Title taken from caption: "Taking the mail ashore at Cape Sarichief [sic] Lighthouse. This is the first mail reaching the lighthouse for six months." View of three men in small boat with large bag of mail behind rower in front of boat, rowing...
Title taken from caption. View of a man at the oars of a wooden skiff loaded with kelp, Kodiak Island, Alaska. Also from caption: "A boat load of kelp, alaria fistulosa, being brought up for fertilizer on the potato gardens at Kodiak." Photo taken...
Title taken from caption. Caption also says: "Peter, a native with a boat load of kelp at Potato Patch Beach. The kelp is to put on the potato patches as fertilizer." Based on other photos in the series this photo was most likely taken on Kodiak...
Title taken from front. Painting of rescue crew, the schooner "Greyhound", and ships in background during storm, Nome, Alaska, July 1906. Photographer's number 927. 1906? Photographer: O. D. Goetze.
Title taken from collection notes. "Capt. Green in work boat." The Captain stands in the bow, pushing with an oar. Two others sit, rowing the boat, which holds a spool of rope. The side of the boat reads: "Str Reliance Work Boat". The...