Photograph shows single story log building serving as the Fort Yukon Post Office. The sign on front reads: "U. S. Post Office, Ft. Yukon, Alaska, 8 ML north of the arctic circle". There are flowers blooming along...
Title from cataloger's notes. Verso says: "FWW." Image shows uniformed girl scouts meeting with a U.S. Army officer on the Fort Wainwright Army Base. A woman, presumably either a mother or troop leader, stands behind each...
Photograph shows snow covered peak of Mt. McKinley partially covered with clouds against a blue sky, they are both mirrored onto the surface of Wonder Lake in the photographs foreground.
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...
Caption from supporting documents: "R.C.M.P. Patrol departing for Ft. McPherson. Left to right: Constable Doake, David Njoole, Sgt. Dempster, Art Lee, McDonald, Albert Ross."
Garry Njootli has sent a correction David Njoole should be spelled...
Includes legend. Relief shown by hachures. Valdez to Ft. Egbert: "...made under instructions by J.M. Clapp, Asst. Engr., June-Sept. 1904." Yukon River to Coldfoot: "…made under instructions by O.A. Piper, Surveyor, June-Sept. 1904." Inset:...
Title from photograph. Verso: Sept. 1924 a charter flight with engineer Ingram & Secretary Sandy Sanders on Attempted flight to Kantishna. Two days tried to get them in there but low ceiling persisted and I landed them here on a 300 ft. bar on...
Title taken from caption. "Ft. St. John B.C. (British Columbia), September 1942." Cataloguer's note: The B.C. cafe can be spotted at the right hand corner of the picture.
Title from caption. Photograph of tripod telegraph poles across a lake. Caption reads: Tripods made of 25 ft poles across small lake five feet in depth near 85. Built on the ice and settled as ice melted in spring. But little aligning found...
Title from caption. The caption (lower left) reads "[Ft. Gibbon] Alaska." A long row of log cabins with a church above them on a hillside. There is a working log pile on the right, and someone's laundry is hanging on the porch of the first...
Title taken from front. View of snow covered Shishaldin Volcano (9387 ft. high) on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Also from front: "Copyright, 1910 by J.E. Thwaites." Photographer's number P35. 1910. Photographer: J.E. Thwaites.
Interior shot. Two servicemen stand in the middle of the photography lab at Ft. Richardson. Sign on the door reads "Film ?". Original photograph size: 6 3/4 X 9 1/4 inches.