A few men watch as others on and nearby try to assist a steamship stranded in ice. There is a person to the far left who seems to be doing something in the ice. Others are climbing the cabling on the ship. The word...
A man stands on snow and ice floes on the ocean, with the S.S. Portland in the background. Photos UAF-1985-122-151 to UAF-1985-122-156 and UAF-1985-122-164 to UAF-1985-122-165 seem to be of the same ship at the same time.
Title taken from caption. "Office". Notes from the collector - "small wooden shack on the bank (badly faded)". Collection note: All photos are in the Yukon River area of Alaska.
Title from accompanying materials. Three vessels, all in the North American Transportation and Trading Company's dry dock facility. The ownership of these vessels was established using material from the North American Transportation and...
Title taken from caption. View of Captain George W. Wester looking up at the sails of his ship, the Pactolus. Photo taken during National Geographic Society expedition on the way to Katmai area. 1918.
Hirst-Chichagof mine manager, Sorensen, stands with his wife and another man, holding paper money, on steamboat's deck; ship's captain? looks on from pilothouse window
Title supplied by cataloger. View from stern of the ship Nanuk, frozen in at North Cape, Siberia, 1929-1930. Description taken from the book Polar Pilot pg. 381, by Dorothy G. Page.
Title taken from front. The Santa Clara, with people on deck, makes ready to land at Seward, Alaska on Resurrection Bay. Also from front: "102A. L.N.G." Photograph number 102A. 1908-1913. Photographer: Lillie N. Gordon. Original photograph size: 5"...
Title taken from verso. This photo was taken before the U.S. entered World War II (1941) in Seward, Alaska, although the quote on the back of photo says " The Veteral Liner Yukon, as she appeared in Resurrection Bay just before going to her doom on...
Lifeboats and salvage inspection vessels as seen from the remains of the S.S. Yukon near Seward, Alaska. From verso: "Glacier Photo Service, Seward, Alaska." 1946. Original size of photograph: 8" x 10".
The bow of the S.S. Yukon taken from the main deck facing forward at shipwreck near Seward, Alaska. From verso: "Glacier Photo Service, Seward, Alaska." 1946. Original size of photograph: 8" x 10".
An Army tugboat seen close to the wreck of the S.S. Yukon after the storm near Seward, Alaska. The U.S.S. Curb and a Coast Guard boat are further out. From verso: "Glacier Photo Service, Seward, Alaska." 1946. Original size of photograph: 8" x 10".
Caption reads: "U.S.R.C. "Bear" and S.S. "Corwin" Roadstead, Nome, Alaska." Two ships sail through icy waters near Nome. May be about June 1, 1914, as mentioned in the "Bulletin of Photography," volume 17, no. 415,...
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...