"My cold weather outfit. Beaver cap, Caribou coat, moose hide fur trimmed mittens, woolen pants, moosehide moccasins and on the snowshoes made for me by Sarah Bob one of the Ketchumstuk tribe squaws of the Forty Mile Indians. These snow shoes are...
Title from finding aid. Photograph shows a row of small houses along the beach in Nome, Alaska. Large chunks of driftwood sit on the beach in front of them. Caption from finding aid reads "Nome area, weather beaten houses and drying rack"....
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...
Back row: Billy Bergman, Ceza Bergman, one of their children, but can't be identified. Front row: Edward and Louie Bergman, but can't tell which is which. Taken in Allakaket,...
Title from verso. Photograph of a tower in an isolated Aleutian location. Image has been modified, perhaps because original was over exposed and needed contrast. Verso reads: "Isolated tower of a remote gale-swept outpost in Aleutians...
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Weather cleared. People on the Muldrow Glacier awaiting the 1st airdrop by Cliff Hudson. The North Peak (not the true summit on Mt. McKinley) is the peak on the right."
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "Cliff got in at 1:20 PM to make 1st airdrop in fast changing weather. He was gone by 1:35."
Title taken from caption on postcard. An indoor picture of a man sitting on a small chair wrapped in a sheet holding a box over his head and his feet submerged in a pan of warm water (steam appears to be rising from the pan). The man is visibly...
Title taken from verso. View of Concorde jet during cold weather tests at Wien Consolidated Airlines hangar in Fairbanks, Alaska. Feb. 1974. Photographer: Wien Consolidated Airlines. Original photograph size: 3 1/2" x 5".
Title taken from front. View of railroad construction camp weather station at right at Healy, Alaska, with buildings in background. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 237. June 27, 1921. Original photograph size: 6 1/2" x...
Title taken from front. View of railroad construction camp weather station at left at Healy, Alaska, looking southeast, with river in background. An Alaska Engineering Commission photo. Photographer's number 236. June 27, 1921. Original photograph...
Title taken from creator's notes. Soldiers and some civilians gather on the Ladd Field flight line during an airshow. Notes and captions are from Cecil H. Kornegay 7-5-2000.
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,...