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 river steamer Yukon, with barge, bringing supplies for Ott and Scheel at Eagle, Alaska. June 4th 1928. You can be sure all the residents able to walk were down there to welcome her. The huge rock bluff called Chutatutla in the background." ...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: The Steamer "Queen" frequently ran north to and from Alaska and the Northwest. John Muir, who would later become a member of the 1899 Harriman Alaska (scientific) expedition, noted boarding the...
Title taken from caption: "Tug Chilkat with steamer Dora meeting the Bering Sea Ice Floes." View of tugboat "Chilkat" maneuvering around ice floes near steamer "Dora" somewhere in the Bering Sea. Photo taken during National Geographic Society...
Title taken from front. View of steamboat "Dawson" at Five Finger Rapids on Yukon River, Yukon Territory, with passengers on deck. Postcard incorrectly labeled "Alaska". Also from front: "P.E. Kern. Skagway & Valdez, Alaska." Postcard. Original...
Title taken from front. View of passengers arriving at Dawson, Yukon Territory on the "Dawson", a White Pass & Yukon Route steamboat. Photographer: Landahl's Emporium, Dawson. Postcard. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/2".
Title taken from verso. View of steamboat "Yukon" and barge loaded with silver ore from Mayo, Yukon Territory on Yukon River in Alaska. Photo is mistakenly labeled "Mayo, N[orth]w[est] T[erritories]." Property of Cook Inlet Historical Society....
Caption reads: "Str. [Steamer] Nome City, June 1902." A group of people stand on the ice with a small boat near the steamship S.S. Nome City, possibly to board or work on it.
Title taken from caption. "9286 -- (2) The third day after leaving Seattle, the Arctic travelers found themselves in the midst of the characteristic scenic wonders of the new Northwest, and they reveled in the glorious vistas from the upper...
Title taken from caption. Cataloguer's note: A view of the multi tiered steamer "Queen", that appears to be carrying a good deal of passengers on her voyage.
Title taken from caption. " North American Transportation & Trading Company's Yukon River Steamer "Portus B. Weare" wooding up - Yukon River." Cataloguer's note: Notice the group of young women sitting on the long grass.
Title taken from caption. "North American Transportation & Trading Company's River Steamer 'Portus B. Weare' wooding up - Yukon River. Photo by T. J. Langston, Johnson, S. C."