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 by indexer, taken from verso. Verso reads: "Bonfire, fall 1928, left Marion Boswell, right Olga Strandberg." Image shows two young women standing by piles of kindling that are arranged in a teepee shape for burning. Behind the women...
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 taken from caption. "A section of the ash fall showing differential weathering between first and second layers." View of a mining pick to give scale to the depth of the ash that has fallen in two separate layers. Photo taken at what was later...
Title from verso. Image shows a group of young men building a tall bonfire. Several men are shown climbing or standing on the bonfire structure. Two men and a woman are shown standing and talking on the left side of the image. Two of them...
Title from verso. Image shows a group of young men building a tall bonfire. Several men are climbing or standing on the bonfire structure. Wooden crates and wood debris are shown at the base of the large bonfire structure. Activity is...
Title from verso. Image shows a group of young men standing outside beside small burn piles. The burn piles are shaped like small teepees. A wagon wheel cart is shown to the right of the men and several trees are visible behind them. Part of...
Title from verso. Image shows an elderly woman seated in a room by a window. The woman is wearing glasses, earrings, a patterned shirt, a watch and a wedding ring. A purse and other objects are visible in the background. Writing on the...
Title from verso. Verso also stamped with the name, "Harrie L. Hughes, Fairbanks, Alaska." Image shows a man driving a large tractor attached to a harvesting and threshing machine. A dump truck is adjacent to the tractor to receive the...
Title from caption. Photo also bears the inscription "Goetzman." Image shows people standing on a riverbank. Buildings can be seen higher up the bank on the left side of the image. Two steamers with smokestacks and two barges can be...
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,...
Photograph of a group of soldiers crouched in a tuck position, doing ski exercises. A line of army trucks is visible to the left of the soldiers; to the right, a series of tents is visible. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Title taken from front. View of Alaska Labor Union Building in Anchorage, Alaska, located on 7th and 8th Avenues between G and H Streets. Building burned Sunday, Oct. 15, 1916. Signs read: "1916. Alaska Labor Union. Socialists and Pioneers." 1916....